ALPEYEVA AND DZHALAGONIYA v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT 21 satisfied that the decisions may thus be regarded as being “in accordance with the law”. (ii) Procedural safeguards 118. The Court further notes that the applicants availed themselves of the possibility to contest the decisions of the FMS before the domestic courts, which examined their claims at two levels of jurisdiction. After several sets of proceedings, by a final decision of 7 August 2009, the Volgograd Regional Court dismissed the first applicant’s claim concerning the FMS’s inaction in relation to issuing her with a new passport. On 6 December 2010, by way of a final decision, the Kostroma Regional Court dismissed the second applicant’s appeal concerning the refusal to exchange his passport. Although the applicants were dissatisfied with the outcome of those proceedings, they did not allege any procedural shortcomings (cf. K2, cited above, § 56). Accordingly, the Court is satisfied that the applicants were afforded the procedural safeguards required by Article 8 of the Convention. (iii) Whether the authorities acted diligently and swiftly 119. The Court observes that the first applicant moved to Russia after the Russian embassy in Bishkek put a stamp in her Soviet passport confirming that she had obtained Russian citizenship in March 1994 and has been living there since then. The second applicant has been living in Russia since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The applicants considered themselves Russian citizens, exercised the rights and duties of such citizens, and were provided with documents to this effect. An internal Russian passport was issued to the first applicant on 14 July 2001, and an insert for the second applicant’s Soviet passport certifying his Russian citizenship was issued on 23 December 1998, and subsequently a Russian passport was issued to him on 19 February 2002. 120. However, when in 2006 the first applicant applied to the FMS for an international passport, an FMS official seized her Russian passport on the grounds of a report of 26 January 2006 on a check carried out by the agencies of the interior. The report concluded that she had never properly acquired Russian citizenship, as no records to this effect had been found in the database of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or in the Russian embassy in Kyrgyzstan, and therefore she had no right to be in possession of a Russian passport. 121. As regards the second applicant, when, in compliance with the requirements of the domestic law, he applied to exchange his passport, as he had turned 45, this was refused on the following grounds: (i) although the applicant could have obtained Russian citizenship if he had been living in Russia on 6 February 1992, the date the 1991 Russian Citizenship Act had entered into force, no proof of this had been obtained by the check carried