State Duma to pass this week the law on confiscation of land plots for the Olympiad in Krasnodar Territory

In the middle of this week, the State Duma of the Russian Federation will approve the law on creating the State Olympic Corporation. On October 16, the deputies will consider another Olympic bill.

The bill "On Amending Certain Legal Acts of the Russian Federation in Connection with Organization and Holding the 22nd Winter Olympic Games and the 11th Winter Para-Olympic Games of 2014 in Sochi" was brought in the State Duma twice. The new wording of the document was adopted in the first reading.

The main target of the Olympic bill is to enforce a special confiscation order of private and leased state-owned land estates for the Olympic needs. The deputies have declared that it will operate only within the Krasnodar Territory and only within a fixed time bracket - from January 1, 2008, till January 1, 2014, as one of web portals writes.

As for the rest, the bill has no changes in comparison with the first wording thereof.

Meanwhile, the land prices in Sochi continue to beat records. In the coastal regions, the land is offered for $150,000 for 0.01 hectare, and in city centre - for $500,000-700,000.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported earlier that a protest meeting of local residents was held in the Imereti Lowland (the area of the city of Adler where most of the sporting objects for the Olympiad in Sochi are planned for construction) in protest against adoption of the so-called "Olympic Law." It stipulates a simplified way of confiscating land plots for Olympic needs, that is, in the extrajudicial manner.

About 500 residents of the state farms "Rossiya" and "Yuzhnye Kultury" took part in the action.

The main demand of the protesters was to cancel the decision on their eviction. There are rumours circulating among local residents that instead of their houses elite cottages will be erected, which have nothing to do with the Olympic objects.

It turned out that the owners of 40 houses have already received prescriptions that their houses will get within the Olympic construction area, but at the same time they were not given any information about the compensations to be paid out to them.

The settlement of the "Rossiya" State Farm located in the Imereti Lowland is inhabited by 2,500 families; many of them have no legal documents on their land, since the documents are only now being drawn up.

The residents assert that the authorities have promised them the help to legitimate their land plots. The promise was given personally by the Governor of the Territory, when the commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) visited Sochi. However, according to the participants of the meeting, the authorities have failed to keep their word.