the Government, Mr Karatayev (application No. 18352/06) modified the scope of his claim in the new round of the proceedings concerning the adjustment of his pension to the increase of the minimum wage. On 6 August 2007 The Oktyabrskiy District Court granted his action in full and ordered that he be paid 32,811.52 Russian roubles (RUB). The judgment was executed. The parties did not submit copies of the respective statement of claims and judicial decision.
26. As regards the remaining applicants, the court either discontinued the proceedings or dismissed the applicants' claims. The particulars of the respective proceedings are summarised in Annex I below.
II. Relevant domestic law
A. Supervisory review and military pensions
27. Under Article 376 of the Code of the Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation of 14 November 2002 (in force from 1 February 2003), judicial decisions that have become legally binding, with the exception of judicial decisions by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, may be appealed against to a court exercising supervisory review, by parties to the case and by other persons whose rights or legal interests have been adversely affected by the judicial decisions concerned (§ 1). Judicial decisions may be appealed against to a court exercising supervisory review within one year after they became legally binding (§ 2). By its ruling of 5 February 2007, the Constitutional Court interpreted Article 376 § 1 as allowing the above-mentioned persons to apply for supervisory review only after having exhausted all available ordinary appeals.
28. For the summary of other applicable provisions of the domestic law, see Murtazin v. Russia, No. 26338/06, §§ 14 - 18, 27 March 2008.
B. Jurisdiction
29. Article 28 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that a civil claim is to be filed with the court with territorial jurisdiction over the defendant's place of residence. A claim against the organisation is to be filed with the court having territorial jurisdiction over the organisation's residence. According to Article 31 § 1 of the Code, where a claim is filed against several defendants having different places of residence, a claim is to be lodged with a court having territorial jurisdiction over one of the defendants, upon the claimant's choice.
C. Succession
30. Succession is regulated by Part 3 of the Civil Code. The succession includes the deceased's property or pecuniary rights or claims but does not include rights or obligations intrinsically linked to the deceased's person, such as alimony or a right to compensation for health damage (Article 1112). An heir should claim and accept succession, as well as obtain a succession certificate from a public notary (Articles 1152, 1162). The right to receive the amounts of salary and payments qualifying as such, pension and other amounts of money provided to the deceased person as means of subsistence which had been payable but had not been received in his lifetime shall belong to the members of the deceased's family who had been residing together with him and also his disabled dependants, irrespective of their having resided with the deceased or not (Article 1183 § 1). In accordance with section 63 of the Federal Law on Pension Welfare of Military Service Personnel (1993), as in force at the material time, the amount of pension due to a pensioner but not received in his lifetime shall belong to the members of the deceased's family if they were in charge of his or her funeral, and shall not be included in the succession.
THE LAW
I. Joinder of the applications
31. Given that the eighty-seven applications at hand concern similar facts and complaints and raise identical issues under the Conv
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