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Nizhny Novgorod residents ask D. Medvedev not to allow the building of the House of Officers to be transferred into ownership
In September 2010, parents of children involved in circles Nizhny Novgorod House of Officers, sent to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev an appeal with a request not to transfer the House of Officers to the ownership of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese. Under the appeal, the text of which was also handed over to the governor Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev and the head of Nizhny Novgorod Vadim Bulavinov, signed by about a thousand people.
With a request to transfer the House of Officers - a former building Diocesan Women's School - Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Georgy turned to Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov in 2008.
The head of the House of Officers, Vladimir Todosyev, told NTA-Privolzhye, that in September 2010 the Nizhny Novgorod Law Academy conducted a study and came to the conclusion that “the building was not built for the purpose of making and providing divine services and the school did not provide a professional religious education. Therefore, this building is not an immovable property of a religious appointment and cannot be transferred free of charge to the property of the Church. Sources