Late last night, my lawyers and Oleg’s lawyers received a letter saying that, back on March 8, the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) had communicated the Yves Rocher case.
This means the case has been accepted for consideration, and Russia must answer the court’s questions by May 9. The ruling will apparently not come anytime soon, but it will definitely come, and that is the most important thing. A Russian translation of the questions the ECHR asked Russia can be found here.
Let me remind you that we won the Kirovles case in the ECHR.
The biggest and most unpleasant difference between the Kirovles case and the Yves Rocher case is that in the latter, the unjustly convicted Oleg Navalny will have to wait for the decision in prison, where he has already been for a year. For the past several months, he has been in solitary confinement under a strict detention regime.
By the way, here is Oleg’s latest column in The New Times (open access): “Light Up, Brew Up.” http://www.newtimes.ru/articles/detail/108629/