Law enforcement officers searched the apartment of Moscow city defenders Elena and Roman Tkach in their absence, at which time their friend Fyodor Neronov was in the apartment. Tkach herself said in a conversation with The Insider that the search was connected with her long-standing conflict with developers – Gorizont-Apartments LLC and Mainestate, which are led by Andriy Matalyga. The Matalyga company began a major overhaul in the building next to the Tkach house, illegally building on two floors, and also tried to demolish the historic building in Moscow, which Tkach defended. At the same time, after complaints about the illegal superstructure, the workers began to throw eggs at the windows of the Tkach apartment, and once they threw an iron pipe that hit Roman in the head.
“I am the coordinator of the Moscow section of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. My husband and I have a long-standing conflict with the developer, who began a major overhaul in a neighboring house in 2017, and in 2019 I did not let him demolish Buloshnikov's house on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, then he decided to build on two floors. After that, we forbade [him] from using our local area. All instances recognized that it was a self-construction, but they did not demolish it. Why, we don't know. It is possible that the governor of the Tula region, Alexei Dyumin, who is a friend of Vladimir Putin, is associated with this developer. ( Alexey Dyumin has been the governor of the Tula region since 2016, as well as a former bodyguard of Vladimir Putin. His younger brother Artem Dyumin, together with Andrey Matalyga, heads the Yantar 96 luxury housing construction company ).
We also forbade developers to put scaffolding in our window. Because of this, they kept us in the wildest tension all summer, every morning people climbed into our windows and threw eggs, sprayed a fire extinguisher into the apartment, all our windows were broken. I’m even afraid to insert glass, because they’ll knock it out again anyway. We clog windows with plywood, because glass is more difficult to collect from the floor than broken plywood. This is the fifth floor, Malaya Bronnaya, three minutes from the Kremlin. Probably because of spiritual bonds they do it or because of something else. Officials did not react at all. I understand that the developer had an agreement with our district police department. We started writing to the OSB about the inaction of the police, and then our police department decided that they would imprison us. In June, when I went out to my yard because the builders "accidentally" blocked the parking lot and started talking to the developer, I was taken to the police department and kept there for a day.
After that, in July, an iron pipe flew into our window and hit my husband in the head when he was sitting and working at a laptop. My husband flew out, I shouted to my son to take down those who attacked dad. An ambulance arrived, followed by the police, and took my son away with the phrase: “He cursed the developer on the roof.” It turned out that the developers wrote a statement to the police – and it was necessary to pick it up for 15 days. Then in September they took my husband for 10 days again at the request of the developer, he was taken to the police department when we just came to talk. But these morons couldn't get the paperwork right. In court, it turned out that the documents were not executed, so there was no case, although I had witnesses, and a video, and everything else.
Before the search the day before, Sergey Mitrokhin, a deputy of our district from the Moscow City Duma, visited the developers. He came to them and demanded construction documents, our activists were with him. Mitrokhin was beaten there, and when he showed his ID, he was thrown out with the phrase: "Fuck your ID." It was not possible to throw out the activists, and we were shown an absolutely fake building permit – something was printed and crossed out, and some other data was entered.
My husband and I left for the Moscow region yesterday and left a friend in our apartment to keep an eye on her, as I am very afraid that they will throw an incendiary mixture. At some point, a friend calls us and says that they are opening the door. The police came and began to conduct a search in our absence. They did not show any documents, and we are nine hours away from Moscow. Communication with a friend was interrupted after I asked to give the phone to the interrogator. She hung up a couple of times, refused to introduce herself, and then turned off her phone altogether. In our absence, a search is underway in our apartment, which was opened. I ask: “On what basis do they open the apartment?” I was told that there was some order and that this was a search. It turns out that now any apartment in our country can be opened by order of the Department of Internal Affairs in the absence of the owners? Almost no one provides us with legal assistance, there is no money for a lawyer, if someone could help, it would be great.
