Communicated on 19 December 2018

THIRD SECTION

Application no. 12000/16 Vladimir Andreyevich PROTOPOPOV against Russia lodged on 18 February 2016

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns criminal conviction on the charges of unlawful distribution of pornography (the applicant posted a photograph of a penis on a page in a social network). The applicant complains that the national law at the time did not define clearly the relevant offence.

QUESTION tO THE PARTIES

Was there a sufficiently clear legal basis for the applicant ’ s con viction, as required by Article 7 § 1 of the Convention? In particular, did the national law at the material time define clearly the criminal offence of unlawful distribution of pornography (Article 242 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)?