no permanent place of residence and that he had previously absconded, thus breaching the preventive measure applied to him in connection with another criminal case.
11. On 23 February 2001 the investigation was completed, and the case file was submitted to the St. Petersburg City Court for trial.
C. Decision to remit the case for additional investigation
and subsequent extensions of the applicant's detention
12. On 25 April 2001 the St. Petersburg City Court referred the case back to the prosecution authorities for additional investigation on account of serious breaches of procedure. The court held that the preventive measure applied to the applicant "should remain unchanged".
13. On 25 May, 18 June and 11 September 2001 the applicant's detention pending investigation was extended until 24 June, 26 September 2001 and 26 March 2002 respectively, for the reasons set out above.
14. On 25 December 2001 the additional investigation was completed and the case was resubmitted to St. Petersburg City Court for trial.
D. The applicant's detention pending trial
15. On 8 January 2002 the St. Petersburg City Court accepted the case for trial and held that the preventive measure applied to the applicant "should remain unchanged".
16. Starting from 1 July 2002 the St. Petersburg City Court extended the applicant's detention every three months. In particular, on 1 July 2002 it extended the applicant's detention from 1 July 2002 until 1 October 2002; on 24 September 2002 from 30 September until 30 December 2002; on 15 December 2002 from 30 December 2002 until 30 March 2003; on 11 March 2003 from 30 March to 30 June 2003; on 13 May 2003 from 30 June to 30 September 2003; on 4 July 2003 from 30 September to 30 December 2003; on 28 November 2003 from 30 December 2003 until 30 March 2004, and on 26 February 2004 from 30 March 2004 until 20 June 2004.
17. The above extension orders concerned the applicant and five other co-defendants. All of the extension orders referred to the gravity of the charges against the applicant and his co-defendants and the risk of their absconding, without providing any further detail. The extension order of 28 November 2003 was more elaborate and, in so far as it concerned the applicant, read as follows:
"[The applicant] is charged with particularly serious crimes, including several counts of aggravated murder, committed while under a written undertaking not to leave applied in the framework of another criminal case on the charges of, inter alia, several aggravated murders and other serious and particularly serious crimes... Even after being detained in custody [the applicant] had committed a crime for which on 26 November 2001 he had been sentenced by St Petersburg Dzerzhinskiy (Tsentralniy) District Court to one year and six months' imprisonment."
18. The applicant appealed to the Supreme Court of Russia against these extension orders. The extension orders of 1 July and 24 September 2002 were found to be unlawful, on 11 November and 2 December 2002 respectively, because in the first case neither the applicant nor his representative were given proper notice of the hearing and, as a consequence, were absent, and in the second case the hearing took place in the absence of the applicant's representative. The remaining extension orders of 15 December 2002, 11 March, 13 May, 4 July and 28 November 2003, and 26 February 2004, were upheld on appeal by the Supreme Court on 27 March, 4 June, 11 August and 22 September 2003 and on 18 February and 11 May 2004 respectively.
19. On 11 March 2003 the St Petersburg City Court ex post facto authorised the applicant's detention from 1 July to 30 December 2002.
E. The applicant's conviction in an unrelated criminal case
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