Communicated on 23 February 2017

THIRD SECTION

Applications nos. 12385/15 and 51619/15 Maksim Mikhaylovich YEFIMOV against Russia and Maksim Mikhaylovich YEFIMOV and MOLODEZHNAYA PRAVOZASHCHITNAYA GRUPPA against Russia lodged on 28 February 2015 and 9 October 2015 respectively

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applications concern the prosecution of the first applicant for his anti-clerical statements and the liquidation of the applicant organisation (the second applicant) on the ground that the first applicant – who was its founder – was put on the list of persons suspected of extremism.

QUESTIONS tO THE PARTIES

1. As regards the decision to prosecute the first applicant for his statements about the Russian Orthodox Church, was there a violation of Article 10 of the Convention?

2. As regards the decision to liquidate the applicant organisation (the second applicant) on account of the placement of the first applicant ’ s name on the list of persons suspected of extremism, was there a violation of Article 11 of the Convention, read in the light of Article 10?