A police officer from Chelyabinsk decided to go on a hunger strike because of the demand to vacate service housing decided to evict her and her colleagues from the service apartments. In a video for the Znak.com portal, the woman explained that she decided not to eat until the housing issue was resolved.
Since the summer of 2021, the mayor's office of Chelyabinsk has been suing a group of precinct police officers – the municipal authorities are demanding police officers to vacate official property. Interior Ministry officials planned to privatize housing, as some of their colleagues have already done. By law, after ten years of service, police officers are entitled to receive payment for the purchase of their service housing.
However, the mayor's office claims that part of the apartments in the house, which was built for the resettlement of the then police, belongs to the municipality – the precinct police have no rights to these objects. Three hearings were held in the case – at two of them the court sided with the police.
Police officers simultaneously demand to initiate a criminal case on the misappropriation of apartments by the municipality, which should be owned by the state. In addition, the precinct police officers asked to check the procedure for payments for improving housing conditions to employees of the Chelyabinsk Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Earlier, in a joint video message to the federal authorities, the precinct police officers did not rule out the possibility of going on a hunger strike and picketing if the situation did not change. The Investigative Committee of Russia at first refused to open a criminal case, but later promised to sort out the situation and try to resolve the conflict peacefully.
In Vladivostok, a hunger strike helped a 97-year-old pensioner return her apartment. The veteran of the Great Patriotic War was forced to take such a measure when her relatives took away her “odnushka” and refused to voluntarily release her. The protest was noticed on social networks, and through the court the woman managed to get the rights to the property again.