4.  The applicant was born in 1958 and lives in Saint Petersburg. 5.  As a serviceman and victim of radiation, he is entitled to a State flat. On 28 March 2002 the 224th Military Court of the Saint Petersburg Garrison ordered the Naval Engineering Academy to provide the applicant with a flat “meeting statutory requirements”. This judgment became binding on 9 April 2002, but was not enforced immediately. 6.  In 2002–04 bailiffs several times urged the defendant to comply with the judgment. 7.  In 2002–04 the applicant rejected three settlement offers.
In November 2002 he refused a three-room flat in Kommunar, a settlement in the Leningrad Region located 2 km away from Saint Petersburg. In February 2003 he refused a three-room flat in Gatchina, a town in the Leningrad Region located 8 km away from Saint Petersburg. The applicant rejected these two offers on the ground that they were located outside Saint Petersburg.
In February 2004 the applicant refused a flat in Pushkin, a town located within the administrative city limits of Saint Petersburg. The applicant rejected this offer on the ground that the flat was smaller than that due. 8.  In December 2004 the debtor offered the applicant a four-room flat in Saint Petersburg, and the applicant accepted it. On 12 January 2005 the enforcement proceedings were terminated. On an unspecified date in 2005 the applicant moved into the flat and began to pay utility bills. On 9 August 2007 the applicant’s tenancy was formally recorded.