SAVVA TERENTYEV v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT
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In the case of Savva Terentyev v. Russia,
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a
Chamber composed of:
Helena Jäderblom, President,
Branko Lubarda,
Dmitry Dedov,
Pere Pastor Vilanova,
Alena Poláčková,
Jolien Schukking,
María Elósegui, judges,
and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 3 July 2018,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (no. 10692/09) 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 Savva Sergeyevich Terentyev
(“the applicant”), on 5 January 2009.
2. The applicant was represented by Mr V. Kosnyrev, a lawyer
practising in Syktyvkar. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were
represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation
to the European Court of Human Rights, and then by Mr V. Galperin, his
successor in that office.
3. The applicant alleged, in particular, that his criminal conviction for a
comment on the Internet had violated his right to freedom of expression
under Article 10 of the Convention.
4. On 7 January 2016 the Government were given notice of the
complaint under Article 10 and the remainder of the application was
declared inadmissible pursuant to Rule 54 § 3 of the Rules of Court.
THE FACTS
I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE
5. The applicant was born in 1985 and lives in Steiermark in Austria.