ALPEYEVA AND DZHALAGONIYA v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT 1 In the case of Alpeyeva and Dzhalagoniya v. Russia, The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Helena Jäderblom, President, Branko Lubarda, Helen Keller, Dmitry Dedov, Georgios A. Serghides, Jolien Schukking, María Elósegui, judges, and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 22 May 2018, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: PROCEDURE 1. The case originated in two applications (nos. 7549/09 and 33330/11) 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 two Russian nationals, Ms Lyubov Trofimovna Alpeyeva and Mr Datuna Vladimirovich Dzhalagoniya (“the applicants”), on 30 December 2008 and 27 April 2011 respectively. The second applicant was represented by Mr A. Vinogradov, a lawyer practising in Kostroma. 2. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and then by his successor in that office, Mr M. Galperin. 3. The respective applicants alleged that the seizure of the first applicant’s passport and the refusal to exchange the second applicant’s passport on the grounds that Russian citizenship had been granted to them in an irregular manner had amounted to a violation of their rights guaranteed by Article 8 of the Convention. 4. On 19 December 2013 application no. 33330/11 was communicated to the Government. On the same date the President decided to grant the case priority under Rule 41 of the Rules of Court. On 12 May 2016 application no. 7549/09 was communicated to the Government.