Published on 5 February 2024
FIRST SECTION
Application no. 73825/13
Sergey Vladimirovich SOROKIN and Others against Russia
and 23 other applications
(see list appended)
PROCEDURAL INFORMATION
Following a preliminary examination of the admissibility of the applications on 11 January 2024, the Court decided, under Rule 54 § 2 (b) of the Rules of Court, that notice of the applications should be given to the Government of Russia.
In the applications marked by an asterisk, other complaints were raised. This part of the applications has been struck out of the Court’s list of cases or declared inadmissible by the Court, sitting in a single-judge formation, assisted by a rapporteur as provided for in Article 24 § 2 of the Convention.
In the enclosed list of applications, whenever an applicant is referred to using initials, this indicates that the Court has authorised anonymity for that person, whose identity will not be disclosed to the public (Rule 47 § 4).
For further information on the procedure following communication of an application brought against Russia, subject of well-established case law of the Court, please refer to the Court’s website.
SUBJECT MATTER
The applications concern complaints raised under Article 11 of the Convention relating to restrictions on the location, time or manner of conduct of public events which are the subject of well-established case law of the Court (see Lashmankin and Others v. Russia, nos. 57818/09 and 14 others, 7 February 2017).
APPENDIX – STATEMENT OF FACTS
List of applications raising complaints under Article 11 of the Convention
(restrictions on the location, time or manner of conduct of public events)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Representative’s name and location
Location
Date of the public event planned
Restrictions applied
Final domestic decision (type of procedure)
Date
Name of the court
Other complaints under well-established case-law
73825/13
02/06/2013
Sergey Vladimirovich SOROKIN
1958
Ernest Aleksandrovich MEZAK
1976
Dmitriy Borisovich SAKHAROV
1961
Ernest Aleksandrovich Mezak
Saint-Barthélemy-d’Anjou
Rally for fair elections
Teatralnaya Square, Syktyvkar
26/02/2012
enhanced security measures taken by the police at the venue of the rally
Supreme Court of the Komi Republic 03/12/2012
73363/17
05/10/2017
Petr Aleksandrovich KARMANOV
1995
Viktor Viktorovich Vorobyev
Moscow
Protests against replacement of trolleybuses with buses
Centre of Moscow
Several protests between 25-29 April and 4-8 May 2016
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 21/03/2017
(received by post on 06/04/2017)
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of the complaint under Article 11: the city administration’s decisions were served on the applicant with a delay, thus making it impossible to obtain an enforceable court decision before the planned dates of the protests.
84513/17*
02/12/2017
Mikhail Albertovich VOROSHILOV
1960
Demonstration opposing inadequate wages for construction workers
Pushkin Square, Moscow
30/10/2016
prohibition on holding the planned public assembly
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 22/08/2017
24989/18*
23/05/2018
Sergey Sergeyevich BABINETS
1988
Yekaterina Vanslova
Nizhniy Novgorod
Protest in solidarity with torture victims
Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street,
Nizhniy Novgorod
26/06/2017
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 28/03/2018
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law - in respect of the complaint under Article 11.
28878/18*
23/12/2013
Aleksandr Dmitriyevich PEREDRUK
1991
Dmitriy Valeryevich OSTRYAKOV
1984
Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Peredruk
St Petersburg
Political rally
Marsovo Pole, St Petersburg
01/06/2017
Political rally
Nevskiy Prospekt, St Petersburg
10/07/2013
proposal to change the location
general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations, regional ban on holding public events at Nevskiy Prospekt
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 15/01/2018
Murmansk Regional Court,
02/10/2013
45492/18*
16/09/2018
Vera Petrovna TERESHONKOVA
1958
Viktor Grigoryevich TORLOPOV
1963
Ernest Aleksandrovich Mezak
Saint-Barthélemy-d’Anjou
Memorial service
Stefanovskaya Square,
Syktyvkar
30/07/2017
general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations, regional ban on holding public events at Stefanovskaya square
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation,
16/03/2018
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law - in respect of the complaint under Article 11.
47512/18*
14/09/2018
Polina Vladimirovna KOSTYLEVA
1977
Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Peredruk
St Petersburg
Political rally
Marsovo Pole, St Petersburg
07/10/2017
failure to propose an alternative location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation,
29/03/2018
50533/18*
01/10/2018
Anastasiya Yuryevna RONZHINA
1996
Georgiy Andreyevich BORODIN
1998
Pavel Anatolyevich POTASHOV
1998
Darya Viktorovna SHCHERBININA
1996
Ivan Yuryevich Zhdanov
Vilnius
Rally to support A. Navalnyy
Voronezh 08/07/2017 and
09/07/2017
prohibition on holding the planned public assembly
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 05/05/2018
19313/19*
01/04/2019
Alina Vladimirovna MARTINOVICH
1994
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Pomazuyev
Vilnius
Rally to support A. Navalnyy
Entrance to the Gorky Park, Moscow
17/07/2017 and
18/07/2017
prohibition on holding the planned public assembly
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 29/10/2018
20327/19*
02/04/2019
Danil Vasilyevich NOVIKOV
1990
Ivan Yuryevich Zhdanov
Vilnius
Rally against retirement age hike
Prospekt Revolutsii, Voronezh
09/09/2018
prohibition on holding the planned public assembly
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation,
18/02/2019
36693/19*
26/06/2019
Stanislav Nikolayevich KOPYLOV
1983
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Pomazuyev
Vilnius
Rally against retirement age hike
Prospekt Oktyabrskoy Revolutsii, Stavropol
01/07/2018
proposal to change the time,
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
18/01/2019
37979/19*
03/07/2019
Aleksandr Gennadyevich SUSTOV
1989
Yelena Sergeyevna PONOMAREVA
1973
Dmitriy Vladimirovich Zubarev
Vladivostok
Political rally, central square, Vladivostok
26/01/2019
general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations, regional ban on holding public events in the vicinity of churches and other places of worship
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 16/03/2020
38192/19*
03/07/2019
Serafima Vadimovna CHERNOUSOVA
1993
Regina Nikolayevna DZUGKOYEVA
1981
Dmitriy Vladimirovich Zubarev
Vladivostok
Rally and march to commemorate the death of B. Nemtsov
Waterfront Sports Harbor, Vladivostok
27/02/2019
general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations, regional ban on holding public events in the vicinity of sports organisations
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 16/03/2020
40994/19
15/07/2019
Arkadiy Alekseyevich CHAPLYGIN
1978
Rally calling for decriminalisation of marijuana
St Petersburg
05/05/2018
prohibition on holding the planned public assembly
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation,
22/01/2019
51689/20*
09/11/2020
Aleksandr Gennadyevich SUSTOV
1989
Yevgeniy Ivanovich LYASHENKO
1986
Dmitriy Vladimirovich Zubarev
Vladivostok
Political rally
Railway Station Square
17/08/2019
general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations, regional ban on holding public events in the vicinity of the railway stations
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 19/10/2020
4233/21
14/12/2020
Ilya Sergeyevich VAGIN
1985
Varvara Dmitriyevna Mikhaylova
St Petersburg
Political rally
Lubyanskaya Square, Moscow
05/10/2019
Political rally
Pushkinskaya Square, Moscow
14/09/2019
proposal to change the location
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 15/06/2020
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 15/06/2020
9635/21*
22/01/2021
Grigoriy Nikolayevich KABLIS
1976
Vyacheslav Sergeyevich SLYUSAREV
1986
Ernest Aleksandrovich Mezak
Saint-Barthélemy-d’Anjou
Protest against construction of a landfill in Shiyes
Stefanovskaya Square, Syktyvkar
02/06/2019
general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations, regional ban on holding public events in Stefanovskaya Square in Syktyvkar
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation,
22/07/2020
9644/21*
24/01/2021
Olga Aleksandrovna IVANTSEVA
1965
Sergey Yuryevich Tiunov
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
06/09/2019
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 03/12/2020
19175/21
21/03/2021
Konstantin Aleksandrovich KOTOV
1985
Svetlana Anatolyevna PCHELINTSEVA
1973
Lev Aleksandrovich PONOMAREV
1941
Irina Aleksandrovna YATSENKO
1981
Oleg Aleksandrovich YELANCHIK
1990
Nikolay Sergeyevich Zboroshenko
Mytishchi
Political march
Several locations in the centre of Moscow
13/05/2019
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 05/11/2020
23108/21
07/04/2021
Svetlana Igorevna SHMELEVA
1982
Mariya Olegovna Eysmont
Moscow
Political rally
Several locations in the centre of Moscow
07/04/2019
general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations, impossibility to hold a public event anywhere in the centre of Moscow
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 07/10/2020
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of the complaint under Article 11: the first-instance court examined the applicant’s claim against the refusal of the city administration to approve the location of her rally on 12/07/2019, several days after the planned date of the rally.
34659/21
18/06/2021
Veronika Konstantinovna ESSEN
1994
Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Peredruk
St Petersburg
Climate change rally
Several locations in the centre of Moscow
14/02/2020
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation,
21/12/2020
2987/22*
15/09/2021
Mariya Vladimirovna CHISTYAKOVA
1996
Andrey Olegovich Valenkov
Nizhniy Novgorod
Artistic performance against 2020 amendments to the Russian Constitution
Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street, Nizhniy Novgorod
21/03/2020
proposal to change the location, general prohibition on holding public events at certain locations), regional ban on holding public events at Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 17/03/2021
15972/22*
24/02/2022
Dmitriy Aleksandrovich SIDENKO
1999
Rally to support political prisoners
Several locations in Tomsk
08/12/2019
proposal to change the location
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 13/09/2021
37318/23*
28/09/2023
Yelena Valentinovna MAKEY
1972
Protest against politically motivated criminal prosecution of people
Square Truda, Yekaterinburg
06/04/2022
prohibition on holding the planned public assembly
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 29/05/2023