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"Rechnik" is not exhausted
Demolition of houses in the holiday village has been suspended until April
Moscow officials, apparently, will still have to look for a personal approach to each resident of the Rechnik village. At the very least, President Dmitry Medvedev insists on “organizing individual work” with each member of the horticultural society.The fact that the head of state recently formalized this wish in the form of an official instruction is reported by Interfax with reference to the official website of the Kremlin. According to the document, Moscow executive authorities are recommended to immediately “consider the issue of postponing the execution of judicial acts.”
Capital officials will be able to resume clearing the territory of the Moskvoretsky Natural Park from gardeners’ buildings no earlier than in a month. According to the instructions of the head of state, an interdepartmental working group must be formed by April 1, which will individually “settle land disputes in strict accordance with current legislation.” In the meantime, land claimants are advised to take an initiative to suspend the execution of court decisions. It is noteworthy that the head of the federal government, Vladimir Putin, and the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, were appointed responsible for the implementation of instructions.
In addition, to prevent the recurrence of such acute conflicts with summer residents in other parts of the country, the president instructed officials of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development to “take measures to identify land plots previously allocated for personal subsidiary farming, dacha farming, vegetable gardening, gardening, the rights to which cannot be registered in a simplified manner."
The head of state also ordered the development of draft amendments to the current land legislation to ensure that bona fide users of such land plots have the right to register their dachas as their property. It is expected that from now on the delimitation of ownership rights to dacha plots with a special status will take place under more careful prosecutorial supervision.
Let us recall that the long-term latent conflict between the residents of Rechnik and the city authorities at the end of January 2010, with the beginning of the demolition of houses in the village, grew into open confrontation. The obvious fact that it was not possible to peacefully resolve the situation that caused a public outcry forced the president to personally intervene in the conflict. In early February, after the demolition of more than 20 houses, dismantling work was suspended while the Prosecutor General's Office inspected it. At the end of last week, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation presented relevant reports and proposals. New instructions from the head of state give the residents of Rechnik hope that the interests of each participant in the horticultural partnership will be taken into account. Previously, city officials stated that the city was ready to compensate for the loss of their homes and summer cottages only to old-timers and veterans of the Rechnik gardening non-profit partnership, who directly received plots in the park in the 50s of the last century.
It is noteworthy that the mayor’s office continues to assure: the liberation of the park area on the banks of the Moscow River from the residential buildings of summer residents is only a matter of time. “It is very important that the president’s order, in fact, does not cancel a single court decision. This does not mean cancellation, but a postponement of consideration of this issue to a later date,” the mayor’s press secretary Sergei Tsoi told reporters the other day. The mayor’s office emphasizes that “the Moscow authorities are consistently carrying out their work and will continue to do so in accordance with the law.”
The fact that the decision of the head of state will only give summer residents an additional time-out to more thoroughly prepare for challenging previously adopted court decisions was stated last weekend at a meeting with participants in the horticultural partnership and an observer from the Public Chamber, Anatoly Kucherena. “Since there are court decisions, they must be canceled - we have no other way,” he said. The Public Chamber hopes that the interdepartmental working group, which should be created on behalf of the head of state, will play “a key role in the final resolution of the conflict.” And representatives of the Public Chamber, according to Mr. Kucherena, will strive to join it.