d v. United Kingdom), § 161, Series A, N 25, Европейский суд отмечал, что он:
"применяет стандарт доказывания "вне всякого разумного сомнения", однако добавил, что такое доказывание может строиться на совокупности достаточно надежных, четких и последовательных предположений или аналогичных неопровергнутых фактических презумпций. В этом контексте может быть принято во внимание поведение сторон" (полужирный шрифт мой) <*>.
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<*> См. также частично несовпадающее мнение судьи Лукаидеса, к которому присоединился и я, по делу "Зубайраев против Российской Федерации" (Zubayrayev v. Russia) (Постановление Европейского суда от 10 января 2008 г., жалоба N 67797/01).
20. Подводя итог с учетом вышеизложенного, я верю, что версия событий заявителя правдива, и я убежден, что в настоящем деле имело место нарушение статьи 3 Конвенции в ее материально-правовом аспекте.
EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
FIRST SECTION
CASE OF TOPORKOV v. RUSSIA
(Application No. 66688/01)
JUDGMENT <*>
(Strasbourg, 1.X.2009)
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<*> This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.
In the case of Toporkov v. Russia,
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:
Christos Rozakis, President,
Anatoly Kovler,
Elisabeth Steiner,
Dean Spielmann,
Sverre Erik Jebens,
Giorgio Malinverni,
George Nicolaou, judges,
and {Andre} Wampach, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 10 September 2009,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (No. 66688/01) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by a Russian national, Mr Sergey Leonidovich Toporkov ("the applicant"), on 28 July 2000.
2. The applicant was represented by Ms K. Kostromina, a lawyer practising in Moscow. The Russian Government ("the Government") were initially represented by Mr P. Laptev, former Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights, and subsequently by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights.
3. The applicant alleged, in particular, that he had been subjected to threats and beatings while in police custody on 9 March and 27 April 1999.
4. On 8 July 2005 the Court decided to give notice of the application to the Government.
5. By a decision of 27 November 2008 the Court joined to the merits the Government's objection concerning the exhaustion of domestic remedies in respect of the applicant's complains under Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention about the ill-treatment in custody and the ensuing investigation, declared admissible the said complaints and declared inadmissible the remainder of the application.
6. The Government, but not the applicant, filed further written observations (Rule 59 § 1).
THE FACTS
I. The circumstances of the case
7. The applicant was born in 1968 and is serving a prison sentence in Sorda, in the Kirov region.
A. The applicant's detention in March 1999
8. On 9 March 1999 senior police officer U. sent his subordinates, including officers M. and Sh., to arrest the applicant at his flat and take him to the Regional Department of the
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