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As to the merits of the complaint, the Court reiterates that covert surveillance measures, including video and audio recording of the communications, amount to an interference with the right to respect for private life, within the meaning of Article 8 § 1 of the Convention, and are to be justified under Article 8 § 2 (see, for example, Bykov v. Russia [GC], no. 4378/02, § 72, 10 March 2009).

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As to the admissibility of the complaint, Court has already established on a number of occasions, in the context of Article 8, that a judicial review which was incapable of examining whether the contested interference answered a pressing social need and was proportionate to the aims pursued could not be considered an effective remedy (see Akhlyustin v Russia, no. 21200/05, §§ 24-27, 7 November 2017).

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The Court has also emphasised that applicants cannot be reproached for their attempt to bring their grievances to the attention of the domestic courts through the remedies which they mistakenly considered effective in the absence of evidence that they were aware or should have become aware of the futility of their course of action (compare, Zubkov and Others v. Russia, nos. 29431/05 and 2 others, § 107, 7 November 2017).

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Regard being had to the documents in its possession and to its case-law (see, in particular, Akhlyustin, cited above; Zubkov and Others, cited above; Dudchenko, cited above; Moskalev v. Russia, no. 44045/05, 7 November 2017 and Konstantin Moskalev v. Russia, no. 59589/10, 7 November 2017), the Court considers it reasonable to award the sum indicated in the appended table.

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Regard being had to the documents in its possession and to its case-law (see, in particular, Akhlyustin, cited above; Zubkov and Others, cited above; Dudchenko, cited above; Moskalev v. Russia, no. 44045/05, 7 November 2017 and Konstantin Moskalev v. Russia, no. 59589/10, 7 November 2017), the Court considers it reasonable to award the sum indicated in the appended table.