USMANOV v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT In the case of Usmanov v. Russia, The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Paul Lemmens, President, Georgios A. Serghides, Dmitry Dedov, Georges Ravarani, María Elósegui, Darian Pavli, Anja Seibert-Fohr, judges, and Milan Blaško, Section Registrar, Having regard to: the application (no. 43936/18) 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 national of Tajikistan, Mr Bakhtiyer Kasymzhanovich Usmanov (“the applicant”), on 11 September 2018; the decision to give notice to the Russian Government (“the Government”) of the complaints under Article 8 of the Convention concerning the annulment of the applicant’s Russian citizenship and his administrative removal from Russia and the decision to declare inadmissible the other complaints then introduced by the applicant; the decision to indicate an interim measure to the respondent Government under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court and to grant the application priority treatment under Rule 41 of the Rules of Court; the parties’ observations; Having deliberated in private on 17 November 2020, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: INTRODUCTION 1. The case concerns the alleged breach of Article 8 of the Convention on account of the annulment of the applicant’s Russian citizenship and the subsequent decision to remove him from Russian territory. THE FACTS 2. The applicant was born in 1977 in Tajikistan. In 2007 he moved to Russia, where he was arrested in 2018 and placed in a temporary detention centre for foreigners for his failure to comply with domestic authorities’ decision prescribing him to leave the country. He was represented by Mr Y. Mylnikov, a lawyer practising in Velikiy Novgorod. 1