ROMAN ZAKHAROV v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT
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In the case of Roman Zakharov v. Russia,
The European Court of Human Rights, sitting as a Grand Chamber
composed of:
Dean Spielmann, President,
Josep Casadevall,
Guido Raimondi,
Ineta Ziemele,
Mark Villiger,
Luis López Guerra,
Khanlar Hajiyev,
Angelika Nußberger,
Julia Laffranque,
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos,
Erik Møse,
André Potocki,
Paul Lemmens,
Helena Jäderblom,
Faris Vehabović,
Ksenija Turković,
Dmitry Dedov, judges,
and Lawrence Early, Jurisconsult,
Having deliberated in private on 24 September 2014 and 15 October
2015,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the lastmentioned date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (no. 47143/06) against the
Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(“the Convention”) by a Russian national, Mr Roman Andreyevich
Zakharov (“the applicant”), on 20 October 2006.
2. The applicant was initially represented by Mr B. Gruzd, a lawyer
practising in St Petersburg. He was subsequently represented by lawyers of
the Memorial Human Rights Centre and the European Human Rights
Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), non-governmental organisations based in
Moscow. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented
by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation at the
European Court of Human Rights.
3. The applicant alleged that the system of secret interception of mobiletelephone communications in Russia violated his right to respect for his