Part of the lands of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert is transferred to the Seliger youth camp

12 April 2012 in an interview with journalists Izvestia Vitaly Mutko, Minister sports and tourism, confirmed that part of the territory of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert on Seliger, where the festival of movement is held annually Nashi will be transferred to the free use of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh). According to the minister, in the said territory it is planned to erect buildings for the youth camp, since the participants festival "no longer want to live in tents."

Deputies from Tver intend to find out the legality of the transfer of protected lands to the camp.

Representative the press service of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert told reporters that the monastery "officially did not give up the land.

April 13, 2012 in an interview with journalists Interfax Director of the Seliger Forum Alexey Volkov stressed that “the municipality received a letter of guarantee from the governor of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert about the readiness to transfer the lands, if the monastery will provide another plot" (instead of 18.76 hectares approx. Svetlitsa village in the Ostashkovsky district of the Tver region).

Sources

• The scandal around the camp "Seliger" flares up in the Tver region // Echo of Moscow. 2012. April 13. http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news÷=45089 In the monastery of the Tver region they say that the monastery did not give up land in the Seliger area // Interfax-religion. 2012. April 13.
• Director of "Seliger" states that the process of transferring church lands to the forum has not yet begun // There.