Olympiad against Sochintsev

Surveyors and bailiffs tried to enter the territory of one of the houses located in the construction zone for the Sochi Olympics. The owner of the house, Svetlana Droficheva, and her neighbors (about two hundred people) did not allow specialists into the territory, Kommersant wrote on Wednesday. Sochi Mayor Vladimir Afanasenkov promised to punish people who defend their own homes. Some of them were armed with Molotov cocktails and sticks. The police arrived and used pepper spray against them. The head of the Adler administration, Evgeny Piven, said that the bailiffs have a writ of execution, so the owners are obliged to let specialists in. However, acting The head of the Adler police, Yuri Starshikov, unexpectedly approved the position of the residents and said that they have the right to appeal the writ of execution within ten days, the newspaper writes. In the area of ​​the Imereti Lowland, where the houses of Droficheva and her neighbors are located, the construction of an Olympic complex is planned. In this regard, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev, ordered the confiscation of land in this territory from residents. At the beginning of the month, representatives of the Olimpstroy corporation already demanded an answer as to why the tenants had not yet been evicted. After this, representatives of the Sochi authorities began to come to the residents and inform them that survey work would soon be carried out on their plots. The head of the Ministry of Regional Development, Dmitry Kozak, announced on July 5 that residents of the lowlands will receive as compensation a new residential village with developed infrastructure next to their former place of residence (but, of course, outside the Olympic Park). Compensation was also promised. However, so far the residents have not received either compensation or settlement. It is possible that this process may take from one to six years. In addition, real estate in Sochi is now becoming more expensive. Tkachev, even before the story of the attempted invasion of Droficheva’s site, stated that the Kuban authorities invariably face open, well-organized sabotage, as local residents block the work of assessment commissions. “Preparation for the Olympics is a matter of national importance, and therefore we will react harshly to any attempts to interfere,” he said (though with the caveat that the harshness will be strictly limited by the current legislation). The other day, residents of the Imereti Lowland held a rally against the actions of the authorities and signed a letter to the country’s leadership, the Olimpstroy corporation and the Public Chamber with a request to leave their lands untouched “for the opportunity to relax in a place they love and can afford.”