Question juridique clé
Whether the applicants had a legal entitlement to a cantonal move under the 1872 Swiss-Russian settlement treaty.
Solution extraite
They currently could not rely on the treaty, so no legal entitlement to the requested cantonal move existed.
Motifs extraits
The Court considered the treaty at least suspended, and possibly extinguished, after the Russian Revolution and the breakup of the USSR. In any event, the applicants could not show current applicability of the treaty to Ukraine.