VASYANOVICH v. RUSSIA
Inadmissible
Branko Lubarda;Dmitry Dedov;Georgios A. Serghides;Helen Keller;Helena Jäderblom;Luis López Guerra;Pere Pastor Vilanova
1. The applicant, Mr Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Vasyanovich, is a Russian national who was born in 1964 and lives in Kursk. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, the Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights. 2. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. 3. In December 2003 the applicant sued a bookmaker over eighty-one beer tokens that he could not redeem at the bar. He accused the bookmaker of luring him into betting with a false promise of free drinks and claimed 9,130 Russian roubles (RUB) (EUR 250) for material loss and RUB 50,000 (EUR 1,400) for distress. 4. On 31 May 2004 the Leninskiy District Court of Kursk awarded him RUB 2,430 (EUR 70) for material loss and RUB 466.50 (EUR 12) in costs. 5. On 15 June 2004 the judgment came into force. 6. On 19 July 2004 the applicant appealed via the District Court. 7. On 20 July 2004 the court stayed the appeal (оставил без движения) until the applicant had paid a fee. 8. On 3 August 2004 the court struck the appeal off (возвратил) because the applicant had not perfected it in time. 9. On 17 September 2004 the court granted the applicant leave to appeal out of time. 10. On 28 September 2004 the court passed the case to the Kursk Regional Court for an appeal hearing. 11. On 20 October 2004 a Deputy President of the Regional Court returned the case as unappealable (снял дело с кассационного рассмотрения), because while the parties were perfecting their appeals the judgment had entered into force. 12. On 4 November 2004 the applicant objected. 13. On 15 November 2004 the Deputy President stood by the decision. 14. On 1 December 2004 the applicant objected again. 15. On 9 December 2004 the Deputy President stood by the decision again.