Communicated on 16 January 2020

Published on 3 February 2020

THIRD SECTION

Applications nos. 75328/16 and 3121/18 Sergey Viktorovich ZHIGAYEV against Russia and Ivan Alekseyevich PUGIN against Russia lodged on 26 November 2016 and 5 December 2017 respectively

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The applicant in the first case, Mr Sergey Viktorovich Zhigayev , is a Russian national, who was born in 1961 and lives in Moscow. He is represented before the Court by Mr I. Potapov , a lawyer practising in Moscow.

The applicant in the second case, Mr Ivan Alekseyevich Pugin , is a Russian national, who was born in 1988 and lives in Arkhangelsk.

The circumstances of the case s

The facts of the case s , as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.

The applicants were found liable for an administrative offence of drunk driving. The court imposed on them a monetary fine in the amount of 30,000 Russian roubles and suspended temporarily their driving licenses. The details pertaining to each application are summed up in the Appendix below.

COMPLAINTS

The applicants complain under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that the courts which considered their cases were not impartial.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Were the courts which dealt with the applicants ’ cases impartial, as required by Article 6 § 1 of the Convention (see Karelin v. Russia , no. 926/08 , §§ 38-85, 20 September 2016) ?