Russians invited to buy or rent estates
MOSCOW
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia rejected the idea of property restitution to descendants of the noble families and wealthy merchants who owned such homes before the Bolshevik Revolution. Medinsky said that the government had failed to follow through on previous plans to manage the properties and that the situation had reached a crisis point.
“There are 150,000 [architectural] monuments in the country,” said the minister. “Some of them are in private hands, a majority are in state hands. The monuments are in [a] horrific condition,” he added.