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issued by the Registrar of the Court ECHR 228 (2022) 06.07.2022 Forthcoming judgments The European Court of Human Rights will be notifying in writing four judgments on Tuesday 12 July 2022. Press releases and texts of the judgments and decisions will be available at 10 a.m. (local time) on the Court's Internet site (www.echr.coe.int) Tuesday 12 July 2022 Kotlyar v. Russia (applications nos. 38825/16, 29722/18, and 12920/20) The applicant, Tatyana Mikhaylovna Kotlyar, is a Russian national who was born in 1951 and lives in Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russia. She is a human-rights defender, providing legal advice and social assistance to migrants from other republics of the former Soviet Union. The case concerns the applicant's prosecution under a new law introduced in January 2014 for having falsely registered her flat as the place of residence of hundreds of foreign nationals � who were not actually living there � so that they could apply for Russian citizenship. She submitted that her actions were a form of civil disobedience to raise awareness about the urgent problem of housing people who resettled in Russia. She was convicted twice, while another set of proceedings against her were discontinued. Relying on Article 7 (no punishment without law) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant complains that she was tried for acts that did not constitute a criminal offence at the time at which they had been committed. Also relying on Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention, she alleges that the criminal proceedings against her were intended to stifle her standing up for migrants' rights and expressing an opinion on a systemic social problem. Krivtsova v. Russia (no. 35802/16) The applicant, Nina Krivtsova, is a Russian national who was born in 1942 and lives in Volgograd, Russia. The case concerns the voiding of the applicant's title to a plot of land, without compensation, following a decision handed down on appeal by the Volgograd Regional Court on 7 May 2015. Relying on Article 6 � 1 (right to a fair hearing), the applicant complains of a failure to respect the principle of legal certainty in that two decisions issued by the courts were inconsistent. Specifically, she argues that the decision of 7 May 2015 contradicted a decision handed down on 11 July 2006 (and upheld on 28 August 2006) which had become res judicata. Relying on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the Convention, the applicant complains that she was deprived of her land without compensation. The Court will give its rulings in writing on the following cases, some of which concern issues which have already been submitted to the Court, including excessive length of proceedings. These rulings can be consulted from the day of their delivery on the Court's online database HUDOC. They will not appear in the press release issued on that day. Name Fumal v. Belgium Bryansk-Tula Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Free Church v. Russia Main application number 76985/12 32895/13 This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive the Court's press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter @ECHR_CEDH. Press contacts [email protected] | tel.: +33 3 90 21 42 08 We would encourage journalists to send their enquiries via email. Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel.: + 33 3 88 41 35 30) Denis Lambert (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 41 09) Inci Ertekin (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 55 30) Neil Connolly (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 48 05) Jane Swift (tel.: + 33 3 88 41 29 04) The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. 2