the kidnapping of his sons, not the intrusion into his home. However, none of the applicants requested to expand the scope of the investigation to cover this issue during the following three years and five months.
191. Assuming therefore that the domestic investigation did not constitute an effective remedy as regards the unlawful intrusion in the applicants' home, the Court concludes that the applicants should have lodged their complaint under Article 8 of the Convention within six months from the date of the alleged violation of their rights, which they failed to do.
192. It follows that the applicants' complaint concerning the unlawful search of their home was lodged out of time, and the Court is therefore unable to take cognisance of its merits.
VII. Alleged violation of Article 13 of the Convention
193. The applicants complained that they had been deprived of effective remedies in respect of the alleged violations of Articles 2, 3, 5 and 8, contrary to Article 13 of the Convention, which provides:
"Everyone whose rights and freedoms as set forth in [the] Convention are violated shall have an effective remedy before a national authority notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity."
194. The applicants contended that they had had recourse to the only potentially effective remedy, the criminal investigation. However, in their case it had proved to be ineffective, and the flaws of the investigation undermined the effectiveness of other remedies that might have existed.
195. The Government contended that the applicants had had effective domestic remedies, as required by Article 13 of the Convention, and that the Russian authorities had not prevented them from using those remedies. The investigation into their relative's disappearance was still pending. At the same time the applicants had not applied to the domestic courts with either civil claims or complaints concerning actions of the agents of the law-enforcement bodies. The Government referred to the domestic courts' decisions over claims for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage caused by offences committed by Russian servicemen in the North Caucasus Region.
196. The Court reiterates that Article 13 of the Convention guarantees the availability at the national level of a remedy to enforce the substance of the Convention rights and freedoms in whatever form they might happen to be secured in the domestic legal order. Given the fundamental importance of the right to protection of life, Article 13 requires, in addition to the payment of compensation where appropriate, a thorough and effective investigation capable of leading to the identification and punishment of those responsible for the deprivation of life and infliction of treatment contrary to Article 3, including effective access for the complainant to the investigation procedure leading to the identification and punishment of those responsible (see Anguelova v. Bulgaria, No. 38361/97, §§ 161 - 62, ECHR 2002-IV, and {Suheyla Aydin} v. Turkey, No. 25660/94, § 208, 24 May 2005). The Court further reiterates that the requirements of Article 13 are broader than a Contracting State's obligation under Article 2 to conduct an effective investigation (see Khashiyev and Akayeva v. Russia, Nos. 57942/00 and 57945/00, § 183, 24 February 2005).
197. It follows that in circumstances where, as here, the criminal investigation into the violent death and ill-treatment was ineffective and the effectiveness of any other remedy that may have existed, including civil remedies, was consequently undermined, the State has failed in its obligation under Article 13 of the Convention.
198. Consequently, there has been a violation of Article 13 in conjunction with Article 2 of the Convention.
199. As to the applicants' complaint under Art
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