06:40, 17 December 2015

Fate of homeless Sochi pensioner arouses interest in State Duma

Nadezhda Tumanova in the waiting room. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

At the request of Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma MP, Igor Vasiliev, the leader of the Sochi branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), had a meeting with the 64-year-old Nadezhda Tumanova, who has been living for more than a year at the Adler railway station. He intends to make requests to the city authorities to solve the woman-pensioner's housing problem.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that after the fire on September 18, 2014, at No. 284 Lenin Street in Sochi, where Nadezhda Tumanova had lived for 10 years, the woman moved into the building of the Adler railway station. The lonely pensioner is an invalid; and she demand to provide her with social housing.

Earlier, Natalia Goncharova, the head of the department of social policy of the city, said that Nadezhda Tumanova had refused to move to the home for elderly people, claiming that the city authorities cannot guarantee "that I would not be moved out of the room in two days and accused of illegal entry into someone else's living space."

Tumanova herself is sure that bureaucrats want to mislead her by promising to give her some housing.

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

Author: Svetlana Kravchenko

Source: CK correspondent