Street in the abandoned cottage village in Sochi designed for Olympic settlers. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

03 April 2015, 02:53

Sochi residents send results of inspection of empty village for Olympic settlers to President

In Sochi, members of the public commission have detected a fact of looting of the cottage village of "Veseloe-Psou" designed for Olympic settlers. There are a large number of empty houses in Sochi, while 30,000 people are put on the waiting list for social housing, the public commission members have noted as detected in the course of the commission's activities.

On April 1, the commission, which activities involve assistants of Sergey Obukhov, a deputy of the State Duma, members of the Coordination Council of the Sochi city anti-corruption coalition, journalists, and residents of Adler waiting for housing, inspected the cottage village, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" has reported that residents of the "Olympic" village in Sochi announced its derelict condition and misuse since 2011.

Participants of the action have signed an act to record the results of the inspection.

"In fact, 79 individual houses were found in the village; however, only 17 houses in the village have numbers and street names, and people live there... Since 2011, the other houses have not been used for their intended purpose and are in derelict condition. They have been subjected to looting and vandalism (photo evidence is attached)," the document reports.

The act on the results of the inspection of the cottage village has been sent to the President, deputies of the State Duma, and the General Prosecutor.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Svetlana Kravchenko Source: CK correspondent

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