4.  The applicant worked as a prosecutor’s assistant in the Pridniprovsky Transport Prosecutor’s Service, situated in Simferopol. In March 1996 she accepted a transfer in Sevastopol to work as a Transport Prosecutor’s assistant. In March 1997 she was dismissed. Since June 1997 the applicant has been on a pension. 5.  On 3 July 1997 the applicant instituted proceedings against the Pridniprovsky Transport Prosecutor’s Service in the Gagarinsky District Court of Simferopol (“the Gagarinsky Court”) seeking reinstatement and claiming payment of salary arrears and compensation for non-pecuniary damage. She also claimed payment of her removal expenses and other payments allegedly due to her, and challenged some orders given by her superior. 6.  On 10 March 1998 the court found against the applicant. 7.  On 16 June 1998 the Sevastopol City Court (since July 2001 – the Sevastopol City Court of Appeal) quashed the judgment and remitted the case for a new consideration to the Gagarinsky Court. 8.  On 1 October 1998 the Pridniprovsky Transport Prosecutor’s Service was closed down. Consequently, the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor’s Service and the Prosecutor’s Service of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea joined the proceedings as defendants. 9.  On 7 May 1999 the court partly allowed the applicant’s claims.
On 20 July 1999 the Sevastopol City Court quashed that judgment and remitted the case for a fresh consideration to the Gagarinsky Court. 10.  By ruling of 3 November 1999 the Gagarinsky Court ordered that the claims concerning the reinstatement, payments of salary arrears, and compensation for non-pecuniary damage should be considered separately from the remainder of her claims. By judgment adopted the same date the Gagarinsky Court partly allowed the disjoined claims. On 14 December 1999 the Sevastopol City Court upheld the judgement of 3 November 1999. On 31 January 2001, following an objection (протест) by the Deputy Prosecutor General, the judgment of 3 November 1999 and the ruling of 14 December 1999 were quashed and the case in that part was remitted for a new consideration to the Gagarinsky Court. On 8 May 2001 it found against the applicant. On 19 June 2001 the Sevastopol City Court upheld that judgment with minor amendments. On 21 December 2001 the Supreme Court dismissed the applicant’s appeal in cassation. 11.  Meanwhile, the Gagarinsky Court continued considering the remainder of the applicant’s claims. On 31 December 2003 it dismissed them. On 29 April 2004 the Sevastopol City Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of 31 December 2003 with minor amendments. On 19 August 2004 the Supreme Court upheld the decisions of the lower courts. 12.  From 1997 to 2000 the applicant instituted a number of proceedings against the Sevastopol City State Administration and the Gagarinsky District Department of the Ministry of Interior of Sevastopol (“the department”). She challenged the refusal of the Sevastopol City State Administration to provide her with a free apartment and sought a ruling obliging the Gagarinsky District Department of the Ministry of Interior in Sevastopol to register her address at the apartment in which she was living. 13.  In February 2000 she challenged her dismissal by the Prosecutor’s Service of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea before the Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol. 14.  The proceedings in the above cases were terminated at the latest in 2000. 15.  On 10 November 2007 the applicant instituted proceedings in the Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol against the Gagarinsky District State Administration of Sevastopol seeking a ruling obliging the latter to reply to her request. On 21 December 2007 the court declined to consider her claim on account of its procedural shortcomings. The applicant did not appeal against that decision. 16.  On 10 December 2008 the applicant lodged an administrative claim with the Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol challenging the actions of the Sevastopol City State Administration. The proceedings are still pending.