Russian citizen won a case against surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights

tl;dr Roman Zakharov, Russian journalist and activist, tried to sue Russian government since 2003 for intercepting his mobile telephone communications and the Russian laws on surveillance as unconstitutional. He failed and then went to the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that Russian laws violate Article 8 of ECHR and forced Russia to pay 40,000 euro of compensation. Here is the text http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-159324 It also has a good review of Russian laws about surveillance. -- https://nesterov.pw GPG key: 0CE8 65F1 9043 2B11 25A5 74A7 1187 6869 67AA 56E4 https://keybase.io/komachi/key.asc