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The coordinator of "Arkhnadzor" reported threats from the Moscow mayor's office after the publication of documents of the urban planning and land commission
The coordinator of the Arkhnadzor movement, journalist Andrey Novichkov, said that he was receiving threats from the Moscow City Hall after the archive of the minutes of the meetings of the city planning and land commission was published.
According to Novichkov, he received calls “from the telephones of the Department of Urban Planning Policy” in Moscow with a demand to remove the protocols from the Internet and “to provide the data of the person who provided them.”
Unidentified people threatened that otherwise “[law enforcement] authorities would find them,” the activist claims. According to Novichkov, they called not only him, but also his colleagues, whose names he does not name. "What's this? Are there bandits in the mayor's office? the activist said.
"Arkhnadzor considers any form of pressure on journalists and threats to them unacceptable - and if this continues, it will use all legal methods of legal and other protection of its members," the movement . said
“When I published these documents on the Internet, I perfectly understood that they contained the result of the odious urban planning activities of the city administration. <...> Obviously, the publication of this information directly affects the interests of the largest developers. Of course, I will not delete all these materials, ”Andrey Novichkov said.
- The Moscow City Planning and Land Commission (GZK) was established in 2010 and is engaged in "consideration and decision-making on issues in the field of urban planning." The commission is headed by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, and its decisions are considered "orders" for the executive authorities in the city.
- Andrey Novichkov has published an archive of the minutes of the SLC meetings since its inception on June 18 on his Fronde TV website . The publication said that the commission made "hundreds of decisions on the demolitions of historic buildings" and allowed the development of "more than 500 parks and green spaces." At the same time, her decisions, according to Novichkov, are illegally "kept in the strictest confidence."
- Arkhnadzor believes that the GZK is a “real and at the same time closed decision-making center” in the field of urban planning and land relations in Moscow. “It was on the basis of the decisions of the SLC <…> that all the stories of the capital’s vandalism of the 2010s became possible,” the organization said.