16:00, 9 January 2010

Sochi residents are indignant with felling of perennial trees

In Sochi, tenants of House No. 25 in the Ostrovskogo Street are revolted with felling perennial and bushes, finding it illegal.

They told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on the Christmas holiday unknown persons with "a permit on construction" of a commercial business centre and "a permit to fell the greenery", signed by city authorities, entered the pre-house territory and started cutting down valuable trees and bushes planted for the money from the resort treasury more than half a century ago.

According to eyewitnesses, trees and bushes were cut, sawed, rooted away and quickly taken away in an unknown direction. District militiaman Nikolai Davydov, who was called to the place of incident by house tenants, watched the process.
According to the militiaman, the documents presented by the cutters were "in good order"; however, he categorically refused to show the documents or name the persons with axes to the house tenants and the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.