Communicated on 18 January 2021 Published on 8 February 2021

FIFTH SECTION

Application no. 75135/14 Andrey Yuryevich MAYMULAKHIN and Andrey Mikhaylovich MARKIV against Ukraine lodged on 24 November 2014

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicants are two men living in a committed and stable relationship since 2010. They complain under Article 14, taken in conjunction with Article 8 of the Convention, that the fact that Ukrainian law does not permit them to enter into marriage or any other type of civil union recognising their relationship amounts to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. They also invoke Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 to the Convention.

Q UESTION TO THE PARTIES

Have the applicants suffered discrimination in the enjoyment of their Convention rights contrary to Article 14 of the Convention read in conjunction with Article 8 of the Convention in respect of the impossibility under Ukrainian law for them to get married or enter into any other type of civil union recognising their relationship?

APPENDIX

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No.

Applicant ’ s Name

Y ear of birth

Nationality

Place of residence

1Andrey Yuryevich MAYMULAKHIN

1969Ukrainian

Kyiv

2Andrey Mikhaylovich MARKIV

1984Ukrainian

Kyiv