The ROC Ministry of culture is brought to justice on the legality of the transfer of Isaac
Moscow. March 13. INTERFAX.RU Smolninsky district court of St. Petersburg at the notice in the hall on Monday began consideration of a lawsuit against the Saint Isaac’s Cathedral Russian Orthodox Church, the correspondent “of Interfax”.
The court, as the judge said Tatiana Matusiak, complied with this request.
The courtroom, where to hear the administrative case, would not accommodate all the journalists who came to cover the process. The judge did not object to fit in the hall of journalists watched from the hallway when the door is open.
The plaintiffs in the case along with Vishnevsky are three local residents. Defendant administrative Committee of property relations of the city (KIO).
Judge matusyak seized had previously considered the case of the dismantling of the memorial plaques to Karl Mannerheim and Kolchak Alexander in St. Petersburg. The claim about recognition illegal Board mounting Mannerheim and its dismantling, it was rejected, and the installation of the Board of Kolchak declared illegal and decided to take it off.
As reported, opponents of the transfer of Isaac to the use of the Russian Orthodox Church had previously filed a lawsuit against KIO in Vasileostrovsky court of St. Petersburg. The claim concerned the legality of the orders of the Committee from December 30, 2016 “On the use of the property at St. Petersburg, St. Isaac’s square, 4 Litera A” with the app, and actions of the Committee on the publication of this order.
Administrative the plaintiffs were deemed disposal on transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral, Russian Orthodox Church illegal and in violation of the right of citizens to access to cultural values and favorable habitat.
The plaintiffs also noted that the order of the Smolny was issued without the required statement from the Russian Orthodox Church.
The court refused to consider the claim on the basis that the Committee of property relations concerning St. Isaac’s Cathedral is not an instrument of transfer of a temple of the Russian Orthodox Church.