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ROMAN ZAKHAROV v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT
private life and correspondence, and that he did not have any effective
remedy in that respect.
4. On 19 October 2009 notice of the application was given to the
Government.
5. On 11 March 2014 a Chamber of the First Section, to which the case
had been allocated (Rule 52 § 1 of the Rules of Court), composed of
Isabelle Berro, President, Khanlar Hajiyev, Julia Laffranque, LinosAlexandre Sicilianos, Erik Møse, Ksenija Turković, Dmitry Dedov, judges,
and Søren Nielsen, Section Registrar, relinquished jurisdiction in favour of
the Grand Chamber, neither of the parties having objected to relinquishment
(Article 30 of the Convention and Rule 72).
6. A hearing took place in public in the Human Rights Building,
Strasbourg, on 24 September 2014 (Rule 59 § 3).
There appeared before the Court:
(a) for the Government
Mr G. MATYUSHKIN, Representative of the Russian
Federation at the European Court of Human Rights,
Ms O. SIROTKINA,
Ms I. KORIEVA,
Ms O. IURCHENKO,
Mr O. AFANASEV,
Mr A. LAKOV,
Advisers;
(b) for the applicant
Mr P. LEACH,
Ms K. LEVINE,
Mr K. KOROTEEV,
Ms A. RAZHIKOVA,
Ms E. LEVCHISHINA,
Counsel,
Adviser.
Agent,
The Court heard addresses by Mr Matyushkin, Mr Leach, Ms Levine,
Ms Razhikova and Mr Koroteev, and also replies by Mr Matyushkin and
Mr Leach to questions put by judges.
THE FACTS
I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE
7. The applicant was born in 1977 and lives in St Petersburg.