MOSCOW –
The Russian house of Commons last Friday approved a controversial plan to inhabitants of Moscow flock to mean re-housing. Despite hours of protests outside the state Duma, got the parliamentarians are behind the plan.
The authorities in the Russian capital want to obsolete blocks of flats from the soviet era to demolish. The inhabitants must move to a new building. Many Muscovites are not waiting for the forced relocation and opposed the plans, which have consequences for more than a million people.
Several hundred Muscovites gathered Friday, according to radio station Echo Moskvi outside the Duma to protest against the plans. The police brought several people. Angry residents of the apartments made the previous month, their dissatisfaction clear. Went thousands of people onto the streets in the Russian capital. The woningplan need at a later point be finally approved by the parliament, but that is seen as a formality.