A resident of Crimea, owner of the Russian Medal for the Return of the Crimea, was deprived of a plot of land issued to him by Ukraine
The Balaklava District Court of Sevastopol decided to confiscate 2,000 square meters of land from local resident, Lenur Usmanov, who actively supported the annexation of the Crimea and even received a medal "For the Return of the Crimea" from the Russian Defense Ministry.
He told Novaya Gazeta newspaper that in 2010, both he and his wife had received two 1,000 square meter lots in the Druzhba-9 co-operative. But the current Kremlin-controlled administration of Sevastopol decided that the former Ukrainian executive authorities had no right to allocate the land to him.
"Allegedly, the plots had to be distributed by the municipal council, not by the city administration. At the same time, it was indicated in the claim that according to the decision of the council of the workers’ deputies back in 1966, the land which I was issued under Ukraine was designated to the forest fund lands category. In other words, the fact that after the USSR, Ukrainian laws had been in force in the Crimea for 23 years, is not relevant to the current government," Usmanov complained.
He believes that the actual reason for seizing the land was his current socio-political activity, in particular, the organization of several thousand participants in a rally against the city's general plan in Sevastopol.
Crimean resident, Lenur Usmanov, is known to be a member of the Qirim Birligi regional pro-Russian public organization. He was an active participant in the so-called Crimean Spring in 2014, and was awarded the Russian Defense Ministry’s medal "For the Return of the Crimea."