"You will not be resettled from communal apartments"

On April 6, the municipal deputy of Alexander Andreev held a meeting with the residents of its region Lefortovo. She was seized by the police, pushed her into the car, kept several hours in the department. Now she is facing a court. She came to the meeting with leaflets and the text of the Moscow Renovation bill.

According to her, a few days before, residents of the village of Dangauerovka began to call her - this is a constructivist village near the Aviamotornaya metro station, an object of cultural heritage. Built in the late 20s and early 30s.

“Residents began to tell that they were sent from the GUIS, they were sent by papers and asked to collect signatures to their house for renovation, that is, for relocation to other places, for eviction and for the demolition of the village,” says Andreeva. - And at the same time it became known that the representatives of United Russia and the citizens sympathetic to them, in particular, representatives of the Lefortovo deputies apparatus, go home and lure the residents in every possible way for renovation. However, they do not disdain anything, they do not disdain even with a frank deception. They sometimes aimed at communal apartments and tell the residents of communal apartments that they would supposedly resettle into separate apartments. They tell those who live in boring conditions that they will improve housing conditions. They say that people will be relocated in the Lefortovo area to the new residential complex, which is built on the territory of the Serp and Hammer industrial zone, which, of course, is not so because it is a commercial residential complex and no one will relocate anyone there for free. And when it became clear that this was an attempt on a low -rise quarter, not even on a quarter, but for eight quarters next to the Aviamotornaya metro station, in order to capture them for development, I decided to meet with residents to tell what is actually contained in the Renovation Law and what this law threatens for them. A lot of people came to the meeting. I just got up on the playground, people crowded around, and I began to tell them. The people were not aggressive, of course, but the inhabitants of the communal apartments were at least concerned. They were promised that they would be settled in separate apartments, and now they are set out some other information. Therefore, in order for the people to perceive what is written in reality, I simply read quotes from the law. I brought an analysis of the bill where various points regarding this law were written, and answered their questions simply by quotes from the document. For example, where people will be relocated? They will be relocated to a neighboring area. Will residents of communal apartments be provided with separate apartments? No, they will not. Will the owners have property? No, it will not be preserved. She said that houses for relocation would be built without observing sanitary, fire and other norms and that it is directly spelled out in the law. That at home for relocation will be built without allocation of land plots, that is, it is self -building, and they can be demolished at any time, and people can simply be thrown out into the street. I stood and read fragments from the draft law. People listened with interest. When a group of about a hundred people, originally not very friendly, stands and listens in silence - it is worth a lot. Representatives of United Russia and those who longed to come from them at the upcoming municipal elections ran behind, tried to shout something, but the inhabitants themselves stopped. Probably ten minutes passed, I told almost everything, police officers appeared, asked what was going on here. I said that communication with the inhabitants is happening. They stated that this is a meeting, that it is unauthorized. I told them that actually you need to carefully read the 54th federal law. If they claim that this is a meeting, then the meeting is not subject to any coordination. But they, nevertheless, continued to shout that this is an illegal meeting, demanded to stop an illegal public event. I told them that it is impossible to stop an illegal public event, there is no illegal public event here, here people stand and talk here. At this moment, I actually finished exposing the inhabitants what I wanted to tell them, took out leaflets, took out the signature sheets and began to distribute them to residents. At that moment, two suddenly grabbed me from behind, as it turned out later, people in a police uniform and simply dragged to the car. At the same time, they, as I later found out, grabbed another young man who simply stood nearby and did not say a single word at all. This is the local activist Andrei Chivikov. He was very hard to fall to the ground, put on handcuffs, stepped his knee on the throat. They tried to twist my hand. As a result, we were simply thrown into the police car, they took them to the police station. They kept there three and a half hours - four, drawn up protocols. These, of course, were enchanting documents. Right in the protocol in black and white it is written that I held an illegal meeting, the illegality of which was that it was not agreed with prefecture, and also collected signatures against the demolition of "five-story" (as it is written) houses in the city of Moscow. That is, the collection of signatures against the demolition of the "five -story" houses in the city of Moscow, from the point of view of the Lefortovo Internal Affairs Directorate, is an administrative offense.

- But in fact, what does the law say?

Alexandra Andreev

-A few months ago, at the end of 2016, amendments to the law on the status of a deputy of the Moscow City Duma and the Law on Local Self-government were adopted, where it is now written that meetings with deputies held in the format of public events are held in accordance with the 54th Federal Law on rallies and processions and other public events. This is an idiotic norm in itself, of course, but nevertheless. So 54 federal law states that some public events require not so much coordination as notification by the executive authority of the city of Moscow, with the exception of two types of public events - this is a single picket and a meeting. That is, the meeting, in accordance with the 54th Federal Law on Public Events, does not require any coordination.

- What rights do you have as a chosen representative?

- I would say that here we are not even about rights, but about obligations. Because the deputy does not just have the right to meet with voters, he is obliged to meet with voters. Thus, the police, absolutely illegally, of course, interrupting my meeting with voters, prevented the performance of my deputy duties, which, in turn, is an administrative offense. In addition to the fact that they violated my rights (this, perhaps, is even less important), to a greater extent it is important that they violated the rights of citizens to receive information from the deputy. And many dozen citizens could not get the information of interest to them. This, of course, is a more outrageous thing.

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Battle for five -story buildings

- Alexandra, people already know the details of how the so -called renovation will occur, although in fact there are not so many details, except for this draft law, adopted only in the first reading. But everything is already discussing everything: which areas, what are the houses, the whole procedure, where they will resettle, who will build these houses in which they will relocate. Some fragmentary information appears, for example, that these houses, where they will resettle, will be built in industrial zones. But so far, in my opinion, there is no general plan yet?

If Sobyanin chose some territory, circled it with a pen on the map and said that this is a renovation zone, then in this renovation zone you can build arbitrarily high buildings, arbitrarily close to each other as you like as much filthy quality

- Naturally, there is no common plan, there is no general program yet, because there is no law yet. And the bill itself is not just raw, it monstrously contradicts all the norms of the current legislation, it contradicts the Constitution, contradicts the Housing Code, the Civil Code, and contradicts the European Convention on Human Rights. That is, this bill so far allows Sobyanin to simply take a pen, circle any territory, even the Kremlin on his own, at his request, and say: this is a renovation zone. And then the renovation zone actually receives the status of extraterritoriality, the laws of the Russian Federation cease to operate on it, the ownership right ceases to operate on it. If the house is in the renovation zone, then within two months a person is obliged to leave this house in the housing that he will be indicated, without the right to choose, for example, between another apartment or other housing and monetary compensation. And it doesn’t matter, the owner, not the owner, the tenant, not the tenant, the communal apartment, a separate apartment ... It doesn't matter! Just like serfs. You were sent a letter that you should leave, and within two months you must leave. If for two months a person has not left, he is evicted in court, and this decision cannot be challenged in terms of eviction, or it can be challenged only in the part that Konuru was provided to you - more or smaller - in return for your housing. It cannot be challenged even if the fact of demolition of the house is disputed in court, which is generally complete nonsense and absurdity. At the same time, the owner loses his property, because under the bill on renovation, the owner is obliged to transfer his apartment to a special fund for the promotion of renovation, in return he receives not another apartment in the property, but only an obligation, a promise that someday in the future he will have this new apartment in property. But when this future comes, the law is not written in the law, the deadline is not defined at all. The only thing he is promised is that the new housing provided to him will be the same in the number of rooms, in living space and in total area. All. Here I want to pay special attention to those who expect to improve housing conditions, in particular, residents of communal services, who are told and who hope that they will go to separate apartments from the communal services. No, you will not go. Firstly, this clause simply is not in the law, the law guarantees you a meter per meter, and that’s it. And secondly, last Saturday there was a great meeting at the city hall, where the deputy Sobyanin Anastasia Rakova presented a large report. There were many marvelous points that Ms. Rakova, for example, considers completely unacceptable uncontrollable councils of deputies, local governments, which means of local authorities, in which there are at least two or three independent deputies. She directly gives the administrations the order to rewrite personally and by name of all voters who are loyal to the current government. But this is a separate story. And now we are more interested in what she said about the renovation bill. So, she said in direct text that there will be no improvement of housing conditions as part of the renovation - at least 10 families live in one apartment, even with tuberculosis. And the second that she said that, within the framework of renovation, the resettlement of communal apartments is not supposed. That is, everything that people could really count on could really interest the move to another place from their current housing will not be implemented. The most important point is that under the bill on renovation, new housing as immigrants can be built without observing sanitary, fire, environmental, construction and other norms. I understand that it sounds like nonsense, but it is written in law. This is the level of this, with permission to say, a federal regulatory act. But there are two more monstrous things. The first monstrous thing is that all construction both in renovation zones and in those territories where they will build for immigrants can be carried out without allocation of land. What does it mean? Construction without allocation of a land plot is self -building. That is, over people who live in a house built without allocation of a land plot will always hang a sword, that at any moment, five years later, after 10, 20 or 30 years, this house can be recognized as unauthorized construction, and this may not be a court, it may even be an administrative decision, the house will simply be demolished, people are thrown out without any compensation and without new housing. And the second thing, which already applies to the whole city: not only the action of property rights is canceled in the renovation zones, the action of all urban planning restrictions is canceled there. That is, in the zones of renovation under this bill it is possible to build, without observing the requirements of the general plan, land use and development rules, and planning projects. What does this mean translated into Russian? This means that if Sobyanin chose some territory, circled it with a pen on the map and said that it was a renovation zone, then in this renovation zone you can build arbitrarily high buildings, arbitrarily close to each other, as much as you like filthy quality. The law on renovation, in addition to the fact that it will deprive the right of property, as stated, more than one and a half million people, it will turn the low -rise, good, green, cozy, comfortable city into endless concrete jungle. The population of Moscow will increase by several million people, this will lead to a complete infrastructure, transport, social, environmental collapse, that is, it is simply the destruction of the city. In my opinion, we are not just about the greed of individual construction companies, although this, of course, is so if we are talking about the activities of government officials, for example, Sobyanin, who pushes this in every possible way, or those deputies from United Russia who introduced this bill. In my opinion, this is just anti -state activity, it is the destruction of the foundations of statehood. Here it should be addressed in general, and I know that some citizens have already contacted the corresponding power structures so that they are engaged in verification, and what is happening with us, why do some officials destroy the basis of the state.

-Nevertheless, Alexander, there is no plan, there is only a bill, but here and there, in the same social networks, there are stories that some house is precisely subject to demolition, although they should not be demolished, photographs of these houses are published, their history is told. These are houses not only of the Khrushchev era, it is at home and earlier buildings in Moscow.

Destroying such houses is a crime. This is a crime from the point of view of the Russian Criminal Code, and from the point of view of Russian and world culture

- This is another point, it is very good that you paid attention to him. Very often in the press, in many sources, the law on renovation is called the Law on five -story buildings, then the Law on Khrushchevs, then the Law on Old and Emergency Housing and try to create in people the impression that this law on renovation exists in order to finally help the unfortunate residents of the dilapidated and emergency houses leave their dilapidated and emergency houses, and most often from the crust Get, finally, a new comfortable housing. So we must clearly understand that this is not so. This is not a law on five -story buildings, this is not a law on Khrushchevs, this is not a law on dilapidated and emergency housing, not one of these words in the law is in the law. The law allows you to demolish absolutely any building, regardless of anything, from its age, from its number of storeys, from its condition, from the opinions of owners or inhabitants. In several areas of Moscow, it is known that representatives of the council came and persistently collected signatures for demolition, persistently demanded signatures for demolition from the inhabitants of good Stalin, located near the metro or near the metro. This, for example, was in the area of Yuzhnoportovaya and in the Yakimanka area. In one of the areas, I know that the residents of the houses were simply gathered by the administration employees and said that either you are now signing for demolition and then remain in your area, of course, in a concrete box, but in your area, or you refuse, your house is recognized as emergency and go to New Moscow. But the most egregious incident, in my opinion, occurred in our Lefortovo, when representatives of the council, Guis, the local "United Russia" run out of the head of the United Language and collect signatures for demolition not somewhere, but according to the constructivist village of the 30s, in the village of Dangauerovka, which is an object of cultural heritage, the demolition of which is a criminal crime. And now they are trying to lure the inhabitants of the signature for renovation and demolition in order to remove the status of an object of cultural heritage from Dangauerov under this sauce and demolish. Yes, some houses require repairs there, there is no dispute, in fact, this is a major overhaul, which is in terms of plan, which should be fulfilled and for which people have already paid. But in the overwhelming majority of excellent quality houses, with half -meter brick walls, with an excellent planning of urban planning, with an excellent planning of the quarter, with good apartments. And destroying such houses is a crime. This is a crime from the point of view of the Russian Criminal Code, and from the point of view of Russian and world culture, ”says the municipal deputy.

Alexandra Andreev is not the only person opposing the renovation plans of the mayor of Moscow Sobyanin, who was under pressure. 19 апреля неизвестные напали на администратора странички в "Фейсбуке" "Москвичи против сноса" Кэри Гугенбергер. 21 апреля депутат Госдумы от КПРФ Сергей Шаргунов в "Фейсбуке" сообщил, что странным образом загорелась его квартира. А 28 апреля было совершено нападение на активистку партии "Яблоко" Наталью Федорову – ей плеснули в лицо химической жидкостью. 20 апреля Федорова вышла с пикетом против реновации Москвы.