5.  The applicant was born in 1955 and lives in Bataysk in the Rostov Region. 6.  In 2004 the applicant sued the Bataysk Town Administration for provision of housing. He had by this time for several years suffered from a grave form of infectious tuberculosis and was entitled to housing according to the relevant provisions of the domestic law. 7.  On 19 November 2004 the Batayskiy City Court allowed the applicant's claim and ordered the town administration:
“...to grant Mr. Sypchenko, whose family comprises five members, well-equipped housing according to the sanitary-technical requirements, with a living surface of no less than 70 square meters and a total surface of no less than 90 square meters”. 8.  On 9 February 2005 the judgment was upheld on appeal by the Rostov Regional Court, and entered into force. The decision was to be implemented by way of providing the applicant with an occupancy voucher (ордер на жилое помещение) from the local municipal authority. The voucher served as the legal basis for taking possession of the flat designated therein and for the signing of a tenancy agreement between the landlord, the tenant and the housing maintenance authority. 9.  On 9 March 2005 the enforcement proceedings were opened. However, the judgment could not be enforced because the town administration allegedly possessed no available housing of the indicated size or financial resources to purchase it. 10.  Following the Town Administration's request to review the case by way of supervisory review due to the impossibility to enforce it, on 28 March 2005 the Rostov Regional Court decided to obtain the case-file from the Batayskiy City Court and to stay the enforcement proceedings until its examination by way of supervisory review. 11.  On 17 June 2005 the Rostov Regional Court granted the request for supervisory review lodged by the Mayor of Bataysk and remitted the matter for examination on the merits to the Presidium of the Rostov Regional Court. 12.  On 7 July 2005 the Presidium of the Rostov Regional Court amended the judgment of 19 November 2004 as upheld on 9 February 2005. It found that the previous instances had misapplied certain provisions relating to the rules for calculating the living surface and thus awarded the applicant the maximum possible surface per person (12m² per person) instead of applying the minimum standard (9m² per person) without giving any reasons. The Presidium of the Rostov Regional Court ordered the Town Administration:
“...to grant [the applicant] ... housing... with the living space of no less than 45 square meters”. 13.  On 18 October 2005 the Mayor of Bataysk issued an order which granted the applicant a social tenancy voucher for a three room flat with a living surface of 50.5 square meters. The applicant contested the order in court, expressing general discontent with the flat. On 15 March 2006 the Rostov Regional Court in final instance dismissed the applicant's complaint. 14.  On 5 June 2005 the Batayskiy City Court obliged the applicant to sign the social tenancy agreement for the awarded flat. The applicant, however, refused to sign the agreement.