Residents of nearby villages Vajškuny and Stančyki oppose the construction of which will cause harm to the lake. But no orthodox parish of Pastavy district center nor Minsk sponsor, nor the local authorities did not want to listen to their arguments.
Conducting public hearings before this kind of construction is due to the Belarusian legislation. Therefore, the villagers of Stančyki and went to court. They argued that there was no hearing, and that the violation of the law.
Hłybokaje District Court Judge Andrey Tarasevich announced another decision: to conduct a hearing is not necessary as the project construction of the church has passed the state examination, and construction has already begun. Thus, the lawsuit to induce Pastavy executive committee to hold public hearings remained unsatisfied.
The situation is commented Grigory Fedorov, a lawyer of the NGO "Eco-house", which aims to help local people in dealing with the construction of the church: "The court ruled to deny. And then the judge verbally explained his position. Like, in the position of the public hearings there is a point where it is said that the hearings held before the public examinations. And if the examination had been, the hearing has been held if it is impossible. This is the first argument. And the second one we did not challenge the decision of the Pastavy district executive committee from 2013 on the construction of the church. It would also like the argument that a hearing is not necessary."
According to Grigory Fedorov, there are further plans to challenge the decision of the Hłybokaje district court in Viciebsk regional court. Also, use the "hint" judge – to try to challenge the decision of Pastavy district executive committee two years ago.
The trial, which was to be carried out not in Pastavy district but in Hłybokaje "for the greatest objectivity in," lasted for a month. Before the trial, representatives of Pastavy Regional Executive Committee and the Łyntupy village council who first argued that the public hearings were held, and then denied his own words, saying that the hearing is not required. Delivered and sponsor of the construction, Minsk businessman Nikolai Romanovich. He believes that building "their" church, which lacks near his dacha in the village Vajškuny. According Romanovich, the nearest village was declared a collection of signatures, and people have signed up for the construction of the temple. It seemed there was a small chapel, say local – but not of the church, besides the Orthodox camp.
This major infrastructure inevitably destroy Bałduk, explain the experts. This unique lake has a slow water exchange and with an increase in the number of visitors will inevitably become clogged. Scientists from the Academy of Sciences studied the state of the reservoir, and recommended that the administration of the park " Narač Lake" to limit the number of tourists on the southern shore Bałduk – to let people only on weekends and no more than 30 people a day. However, the lake forms the border between the regions of its northern shore – this is the territory of Viciebsk. Then officials gave permission for a large construction site, despite the violation of legislation and environmental threat to the unique reservoir.
Lawyer Grigory Fyodorov stressed that it would be possible to apply to the construction halted at least for the time trial. However, in his experience, such requests are usually not satisfied. If satisfied, but then the court did not support the claim, the plaintiff may demand compensation for damage to property. Therefore, from such a strategy was abandoned.
But public outcry, which caused a problem building on Bałduk, if not stop the construction of the church, then at least sharply raise the question of a summer camp, Fedorov said: "I think the greatest danger the lake – is not from the church and from the camp . Its construction has already received permission of the Viciebsk Oblast Executive Committee. So now, it seems to me, if the building on Bałduk caused such great public outcry, the camp is not so simple. It still needs to approve the project, doing all the documents. Start all over again, in a word. And I think that there are issues with the building. And now, I think people's rights are violated in the discussion. By the way, just now in Połacak conducted public discussion of the construction of the church, similar object. It turns out that the people of Połacak, the big city, have the right to express their opinions, and villagers of Stančyki have not?"
By the way, the place where the church is built only recently became a territory of the village. Until now, there was the territory of the hydrological reserve "Švakšty" which reduced before the start of the construction of the church.
There are a number of circumstances that raise questions. For example, how the Pastavy Orthodox parish of St. Nicholas "Holy Spring" has included in its boundaries two traditionally Catholic village, 40 kilometers from the district center.
Ask about the villagers still have not lost hope. While there was a lawsuit in Pastavy executive committee request had been made by the local people still hold a public hearing, provided by the legislation. Executive committee has already rejected the author statements, but they turned up – in the Viciebsk Oblast Executive Committee. And in the case of failure of the next again intend to submit an application to the court.
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