Communicated on 7 May 2020 Published on 2 June 2020 FIFTH SECTION Application no. 29662/13 Aleksandr Safyanovich SHOYGO against Ukraine lodged on 30 April 2013 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the detention of the applicant, who claims to be either a Russian citizen or a Stateless person, in Ukraine. The applicant alleges that he was born in 1985 in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, in the far north of the country, in a family of reindeer farmers. His birth was not registered. After his mother’s death in 1998 his family took away his property and he had to leave. He became a vagrant, lacking any identity documents, travelling in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine and crossing their borders in an irregular manner. He alleges that the Ukrainian authorities arrested and attempted to expel him on several occasions but that their efforts failed because he lacked documentation as a Russian citizen or any other identity document. Most recently, on 1 November 2011 the applicant was arrested by the Ukrainian Border Guards while trying to cross into the Republic of Moldova. On 4 November 2011 the Odessa Circuit Administrative Court, on application from the Border Guards, ordered the applicant’s expulsion from Ukraine as well as his detention for up to twelve months pending expulsion. The applicant missed the time-limit for appeal, according to him because he was illiterate and lacked legal representation, but his appeal was eventually accepted and on 16 October 2012 the Odessa Administrative Court of