KABLIS v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT 1 In the case of Kablis v. Russia, The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Vincent A. De Gaetano, President, Branko Lubarda, Helen Keller, Dmitry Dedov, Pere Pastor Vilanova, Alena Poláčková, Georgios A. Serghides, judges, and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 2 April 2019, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: PROCEDURE 1. The case originated in two applications (nos. 48310/16 and 59663/17) 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 Grigoriy Nikolayevich Kablis (“the applicant”), on 28 July 2016 and 30 July 2017 respectively. 2. The applicant was represented by Mr V. Zubkov, a lawyer practising in Syktyvkar, Mr A. Laptev, a lawyer practising in Moscow, and Mr E. Mezak, a human-rights defender from Syktyvkar who was granted leave by the President of the Court to represent the applicant in application no. 48310/16. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr M. Galperin, Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights. 3. The applicant complained of a breach of his right to freedoms of expression and assembly and the lack of an effective remedy in that respect. 4. On 27 March and 8 September 2017 the Government were given notification of the applications. THE FACTS I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE 5. The applicant was born in 1976 and lives in Syktyvkar.

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