{"id":959,"date":"2018-06-12T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?post_type=case-studies&p=959"},"modified":"2023-10-31T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:34:23","slug":"alpeyeva-dzhalagoniya-v-russia","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/key-ehrac-cases\/alpeyeva-dzhalagoniya-v-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpeyeva and Dzhalagoniya v Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Case Nos. 7549\/09 and 33330\/11
\nDate of Judgment: 12 June 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

The applicants are former citizens of the Soviet Union who moved to the Russian Federation from Kyrgyzstan and Georgia (both former Soviet countries). They received Russian passports in 2001 and 2002 respectively. When they applied to renew them, the first applicant\u2019s passport was seized, and the second applicant was denied issue of a new passport, on the grounds that their previous documents had been issued \u201cin error\u201d.<\/p>\n

In their ECtHR applications lodged in 2008 and 2011, the applicants argued that the State\u2019s actions interfered with their rights under Art. 8 ECHR to find employment, and receive medical care, pensions or social benefits. In 2010 and 2013 both applicants made successful new applications for Russian citizenship and were issued with passports.<\/p>\n

The Government complained that the applicants had failed to inform the Court that they had subsequently been granted Russian citizenship. It argued that the first applicant\u2019s Art. 8 rights had been interfered with, but that this had been lawful and necessary in a democratic society. In relation to the second applicant, it argued that there had been no breach of Article 8, as his passport had not been seized, and he had failed to show how the refusal to exchange it had affected his rights and freedoms, except hypothetically.<\/p>\n

Read the full case summary in the Winter 2018 Bulletin.<\/a><\/p>\n

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