Residents from Yasny Proezd won a victory in the Supreme Court

The scandalous story with the Moscow hostel on Yasnaya Proyezd seems to be drawing to a close. Today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the residents of the house, canceling the decisions of the Babushkinsky and Moscow City Courts and sending the case to a new ...

The scandalous story with the Moscow hostel on Yasnaya Proyezd seems to be drawing to a close. Today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the residents of the house, overturning the decisions of the Babushkinsky and Moscow City Courts and sending the case back for a new trial.

Recall that the hostel on Yasnaya Proyezd once belonged to the Smena clothing factory. In addition to factory workers, refugees from Abkhazia and Baku also live in the house, settled there by the Moscow authorities in the early 90s. When the factory ceased to function, the hostel was given to federal ownership instead of municipal ownership, as required by law. And the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management (FAUFI), in turn, transferred the house to the operational management of the Federal Penitentiary Service (then GUIN) in Moscow. Since then, attempts by the prison department to evict the tenants living in the house have not stopped. On June 24-25 last year, UFSIN officers staged a real massacre in the house, seizing six apartments, throwing people out into the street, beating residents, journalists and activists of leftist organizations who came to the aid of the residents.

Back in 2006, the Arbitration Court found that the transfer of the house to federal ownership was illegal. The court ruled that the house should be classified as municipal property. However, the situation did not change after that, and the UFSIN continued to dispose of the house and harass the tenants. In 2007, the tenants filed a new lawsuit with the Babushkinsky Court to recognize
illegal orders of the FAUFI to transfer the house to the Federal Penitentiary Service, as well as the requirement to recognize the right of the tenants to free privatization of the occupied housing. The judge of the Babushkinsky court, Irina Sumenkova, denied the residents all their demands. The Moscow City Court took the same position. And today, agreeing on the whole with the arguments of the residents, the judges of the Supreme Court overturned this decision. Now the Babushkinsky court should put an end to the case, which, as the residents of the house believe, is unlikely to go against the position of the Armed Forces.

Mikhail Doronenko for Novaya