4.  The applicant, a Ukrainian national was born in 1941 and lives in the town of Zhovti Vody, the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine. 5.  In 1998, 2000 and 2001 the applicant instituted three separate sets of proceedings in the Zhovtovodskyi Town Court (hereinafter – the Town Court) against the Joint Stock Company “Electron-Gaz” (the “EG”) – in which the State held 99.9% of the share capital – to recover unpaid salary and compensation. By three judgments of 12 January 1999, 9 June 2000 and 21 February 2001 the court awarded the applicant the total of UAH 8,634.89[1] in salary arrears and other payments. 6.  On 7 March 2003 the Commercial Court of the Dnipropetrovsk Region initiated bankruptcy proceedings against the EG, which are still pending. 7.  On 22 September 2003, in the course of bankruptcy proceedings against the EG and following Article 86 of the Code of Commercial Proceedings and Articles 14 and 15 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Restoration of a Debtor's Solvency or the Declaration of Bankruptcy”, the Commercial Court of the Dnipropetrovsk Region ordered the inclusion of the Town Court's awards given in the applicant's favour, as well as his additional claim for UAH 4,332.05[2], which the EG had recognised as salary arrears due him for 2000 - 2002, into the list of creditors' claims. 8.  On 17 May 2002 the applicant was informed by the Bailiffs' Service that the judgments in his favour were not executed due to the lack of funds of the debtor and that the procedure for the forced sale of assets belonging to the debtor was barred by the Law on the Introduction of a Moratorium on the Forced Sale of Property of 29 November 2001. 9.  In August 2005 the judgments of 12 January 1999, 9 June 2000 and 21 February 2001 were fully enforced. 10.  On 7 April 2006 the applicant instituted one more set of proceedings against the same debtor (EG) in the Town Court, seeking, inter alia, compensation of UAH 4,332.05 recognized by the defendant as salary arrears due him for 2000 - 2002. On 5 June 2006 the court partly allowed his claim and ordered the defendant to pay him UAH 3,829.94[3] in salary arrears and UAH 500[4] in compensation of non-pecuniary damage. This decision was not appealed against and became final.