Uglegorsk in the Sakhalin region at the center of a high-profile federal scandal

The other day, several federal media, citing local resident Lyudmila Anikeeva, reported that the municipal authorities had relocated a woman from one emergency house to another, thereby allegedly deceiving the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev, who instructed to take control of the issue of providing her with housing. The editors of “MK on Sakhalin” went to the address Uglegorsk, st. Zavodskaya 7, talked to its residents and service organization to make sure on the spot how things really are.

Everything turned out to be somewhat different from what was presented to the general public. The house is not emergency, and has no prerequisites for its recognition as such. Its overhaul is in full swing, the heating networks are being changed, the basement is being repaired. After completion of these works, the management company intends to repair the entrances and replace the mailboxes.

Against the voluntaristic recognition of the house as emergency and other residents with whom our correspondent managed to talk. Although not the newest, the house is well maintained, and plans for its overhaul inspire them with optimism.

Residents of the house associate the activity of their neighbor with her protracted conflict with the city administration. Didn’t help put it out last year and the resignation of the mayor. After Dmitry Tsukanov, at whom Lyudmila Anikeeva threw a shoe, left his post, Fyodor Filin, who had worked on the restoration of civilian facilities in the NVO zone, was elected head of the administration.

Who is right and who is wrong in this story will be shown only by time and court, from which Lyudmila Anikeeva and the city administration, as open sources testify, do not get out.