USMANOV v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT III. ENTRY BAN 20. On 12 April 2018 the Novgorod Regional Department of the Federal Security Service drew up a decision imposing on the applicant a thirty-five-year entry ban preventing him from entering Russia until April 2053. It was stated that he posed a threat to national security and public order. He was informed of that decision on 14 June 2018. 21. On an unspecified date he challenged the entry ban before the Regional Court, which dismissed his appeal on 29 November 2018. The court found that the entry ban had been issued by the competent authority on the grounds that he posed a threat to Russia’s national security. Without disclosing the information underlying that conclusion, the court held that the impugned measure was appropriate in the applicant’s situation. The court noted that he could settle in any country, including Tajikistan. There was no risk to his life there. His family could follow him or stay in Russia. If that happened, he could support them from abroad. 22. The applicant appealed against the Regional Court’s decision to the Supreme Court of Russia. The appeal was dismissed on 17 April 2019 on the grounds that the Regional Court when examining the case had not breached substantive or procedural rules of domestic law in a manner that could affect the outcome of the proceedings. IV. ADMINISTRATIVE REMOVAL 23. On 13 August 2018 the DMI informed the applicant of his obligation to leave Russian territory before 17 August 2018 given the entry ban imposed on him by the Federal Security Service. He did not comply with the order. 24. On 29 November 2018 a DMI officer drew up an administrative offence report in respect of the applicant for breaching the rules governing the stay of foreign nationals in Russia, specifically for his failure to comply with the DMI’s order to leave the country. The case was transferred to the District Court for examination on the merits. 25. On the same day, 29 November 2018, that court, taking into account the annulment of the applicant’s Russian citizenship, the imposition of the entry ban on him and his failure to comply with the order to leave Russia, found him guilty of an administrative offence under Article 18.8 § 1.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences (“the CAO”), namely “a breach by a foreigner or stateless person of the rules for entry into Russia or staying in the country”. It imposed a fine on him in the amount of RUB 2,000 (EUR 29) and ordered his forcible administrative removal from Russia. 26. The court imposed the minimum fine provided for by domestic law because the applicant had never committed other administrative offences and had dependent minor children. It did not however see any circumstances 4