MOSCOW, April 5 - RAPSI. The European Court of Human Rights has informed the Russian authorities that an activist of the banned National Bolshevik Party, who was sentenced in 2006, has filed an application demanding €500,000 in compensation, defense attorney Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI on Friday.

In May 2005, Olga Kudrina and fellow National Bolshevik Party member Yevgeny Logovsky placed an anti-government banner on the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow.  Both were found guilty of hooliganism and intentionally damaging property.

In 2006, Moscow's Tverskoy District Court sentenced Logovsky to a suspended 3.5 year sentence, with a probation period of five years.

Kudrina was sentenced to 3.5 years in a general regime penal colony. The court explained the harsher sentence for Kudrina by her involvement in a protest over the law on privilege payments in Moscow in August 2004. Kudrina did not appear for the reading of the sentence and has been on the wanted list ever since.

The appeal was forwarded to the European Court of Human Rights in July 2006.

Kudrina's defense has asked the court to acknowledge a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights' Article 6 on the right to a fair trial, which was committed during the consideration of the criminal case against the activists.