 Although the Russian Supreme Court ruled that detention of Shutov was illegal and he was reelected to the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly (a city parliament) in 2002, this ""personal enemy of Putin"" was shuttled during 7 years between different prisons, and finally sentenced to life imprisonment on February 16, 2006, allegedly for organizing murders of businessmen (the charges of murdering Starovoitova were dropped).On September 14, 2010, an application No.20922/08 has been communicated to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).