CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE COUNCIL OF EUROPE COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST SECTION DECISION AS TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF Application no. 35222/04 by Pavel IVANOV against Russia The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 20 February 2007 as a Chamber composed of: Mr C.L. ROZAKIS, President, Mr L. LOUCAIDES, Mrs N. V , Mr A. KOVLER, Mrs E. STEINER, Mr S.E. JEBENS, Mr G. MALINVERNI, judges, and Mr S. NIELSEN, Section Registrar, Having regard to the above application lodged on 27 August 2004, Having deliberated, decides as follows: THE FACTS The applicant, Mr Pavel Petrovich Ivanov, is a Russian national who was born in 1948 and lives in Velikiy Novgorod. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows. The applicant is the sole founder, owner and editor of the Russkoye Veche newspaper. The newspaper has been published monthly since 2000 at the applicant's expense and has a circulation of 999 copies. In 2003 the applicant was committed for trial on a charge of public incitement to ethnic, racial and religious hatred through the use of the massmedia (an offence under Article 282 § 1 of the Criminal Code). The