Sberbank raised Crimea to protest
A campaign “For Crimea without fences” has been announced on the peninsula, which will last until August 17. Its participants continue to collect signatures in Moscow and 21 Crimean settlements under an appeal to the authorities demanding the removal of ugly fences around private hotels and boarding houses that block views of the sea.
Fences in Crimea have been “growing” in recent years, but the reason for the start of the action was the fence along the highway above the village of Opolznevoye, where the Mriya Hotel is located, owned by Sberbank, which never dared to open its branches on the peninsula.
A few days ago, the mayor of Yalta Alexey Chelpanov supported the action.
“Today I visited the installation site of a fence in the Opolznevoy area, which caused a great resonance among local residents. The hotel complex that installed the fence, instead of removing it altogether as we requested, moved the fence lower. I gave instructions to remove the fence!” – Chelpanov wrote on his Facebook on July 17.
Despite the mayor’s assurances, the fence over Mriya continues to stand. Yalta lawyer and coordinator of the action Anna Shaulskaya spoke about this on the TVForpost YouTube channel.
“Not so long ago, Crimea and Sevastopol became part of the Russian Federation. Unfortunately, after this the fencing of the southern coast of Crimea is scaled up. Now everything has become so confusing that people couldn’t stand it. The boiling point was the barbed wire fence in the Mriya area. It’s still there,” Shaulskaya said.
She believes that claims against the installation of fences should be filed in the courts of the prosecutor's office. The appeal against the fences has already collected more than 2000 signatures.
Sevastopol social activist Anatoly Mareta proposes to resume the actions of Ukrainian times, when he, together with the Cossacks, dismantled fences around the infill development sites in Sevastopol.
“This is where everything is heading, this is what we are being led to. I believe that before dismantling this or that fence, it would be fair to hold several protests in front of the structure that installed these fences. And then gather people and, observing the laws of the Russian Federation, dismantle these illegal, terrible fences,” Mareta said.
“How many more riots and signatures do you need for you to finally hear us? We don't want this blatant fence. If a plot of land is allocated, let’s adjust its boundaries so that we don’t see the fence, but see the beauty of the southern coast of Crimea,” said Anna Shaulskaya.
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