Thirsty shelter

In Kyzyl, in the building of the Tuva agency for family and children, participants in the protest of orphans who do not have housing were detained. This was reported on the VK page of the movement "Orphan Tuva. The right to housing."

Among the detainees a pregnant woman.

Also, together with the protesters, the chief of the regional election headquarters Ksenia Sobchak Oyumaa Dongak was captured.

The detainees were delivered to the city Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The protesters were seized after their meeting with officials organized by the authorities themselves.

An attempt to detain a pregnant woman:

In Kyzyl, in the building of the Tuva agency for family and children, participants in the protest of orphans who do not have housing were detained. This is the most large -scale protest in the region. In Tuva, more than 4.6 thousand orphans are not provided with housing; Some have been in line for decades. https://t.co/hfqtkllixi pic.twitter.com/vcrczv23UC

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According to Russian laws, the state should provide orphans of housing when they, having reached adulthood, leave the orphanage and boarding schools. Meanwhile, these norms are not fulfilled in Tuva - people aged 40-50 years are in line for housing. According to the Government of the region, as of January 1 of this year, 4611 people stood in the queue for housing, of which 1811 were over 23 years old.

Recently, the Tuva orphan Movement was formed. The right to housing. " According to Siberia. Realities, over 700 people entered it in a few days.

On Monday, a group of movement activists appeared at the Agency for Children and Family Affairs. The director of the institution Said Sengi said that since 2015, not a single waiting list received an apartment.

After that, Dongak said, activists visited construction sites, "officials regularly report on the successes." “But they saw the foundations there at best,” the social activist added.

After that, about 10-15 members of the movement returned to the agency and remained there to spend the night there. They demand to speed up the construction of apartments, and for a while, until the houses are built, to provide normal temporary housing. Now officials offer orphans to live with small children in shelters for the homeless.

In the morning, the director of the agency Sengi did not go to work. Meanwhile, new protesters from Kyzyl and other areas began to arrive at the institution.

According to Dongak, this is an unprecedented protest action for Tuva - there were no more large -scale in recent years.

Officials ignored the protest for about a day. Then at 17 hours a meeting was scheduled for the regional Ministry of Labor. Soon, however, it became known that the meeting would not take place. In this regard, activists called on protesters to the agency, where in the end a conversation with officials, after which the detentions began.