MAINOV v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT 1 In the case of Mainov v. Russia, The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of: Branko Lubarda, President, Pere Pastor Vilanova, Georgios A. Serghides, judges, and Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 10 April 2018, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: PROCEDURE 1. The case originated in an application (no. 11556/17) 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 Mr Olimzhon Mirzokarimovich Mainov (“the applicant”) on 25 January 2017. 2. The applicant was represented by Ms O. Tseytlina, a lawyer practising in St Petersburg. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr M. Galperin, the Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights. 3. On 6 July 2017 the application was communicated to the Government. 4. The Government objected to the examination of the application by a Committee. After having considered the Government’s objection, the Court rejects it. THE FACTS I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE 5. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. 6. The applicant was born in 1967 in the Tajikistan Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union and came to Russia in 1993. He is an apatride. 7. On 31 July 2014 the applicant was arrested for vagrancy. On 2 August 2014 the Kalininskiy District Court in St Petersburg sentenced him to a fine and administrative removal from Russia. The court also directed that he should be detained until expulsion in the special facility for the detention of aliens in the Leningrad Region (СУВСИГ по СПб и ЛО) in Krasnoye Selo.