In the Russian Federation, the shopping center is converted for the production of drones: power ignores people's complaints - WP

Izhevskaya residents protest against the construction of a military plant among the housing massif and call the reaction of local officials "shameful". In the capital of the Russian Republic of Udmurtia Izhevsk, the Aeroscan drone production company has purchased an Italma shopping center and plans to convert it to a UAV factory. The locals are protesting this initiative, but the region's authorities are not responding to the complaint, writes The Washington Post.

Aeroscan has informed entrepreneurs that they should release the shopping center where the water park, cinema, children's entertainment park, clothing stores, cafes, and other entertainment points. After it became known about the future deployment of production near residential development, Izhevskaya resident Oleg Zhitnikov created a petition, which in two weeks collected almost 5,000 signatures. "Let's say" No! "This crazy idea.

Let's leave kindergartens to preschoolers, schools - students, shops - buyers and residents of their prosperous apartments," - says the petition text. Zhitnikov called his intention to equip a military-industrial enterprise in the shopping center "or greed, or sabotage" of the Izhevsky Magnate, which has ties in the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

Udmurtia has taken the side of Aeroscan, saying that the owner of the premises himself can choose his "vector of development", even if this choice is not liked by some citizens. The first Viceremier of the Government of the region Konstantin Suntsov argued his non -interference with the "policy of absence of barriers to business.

" Izhevsky magnate Alexander Zakharov, whom the petition authors consider to be responsible for the plan of re -equipment of the shopping center, stated that before the war, the shopping center was trade in goods, mainly Western production. "I was bitter to see me as a man who was born and works in the city of weapons, how powerful factories built in Soviet times turn into shopping centers one by one," Zakharov said.

According to the magnate, the re -equipment of these buildings to the factories for the production of three types of UAVs will help to "increase production quickly". Journalists say that Aeroscan is the property of Nikita Zakharov, who is probably the son of Alexander Zakharov.

"It is a shame that Udmurtia does not listen to us," said the woman who introduced himself at the Catherine at the Press Conference of the Tenants of the Shopping Center and the residents of the surrounding houses, which took place on January 24. Kateryna declared her intention to continue the fight and suggested like -minded people to go to court.

The head in the water park Marina Demashkin added that she is not against the production of military equipment in Russia, but it is embarrassed by the placement of a dangerous enterprise among a housing estate in a building from unstable structures. "We write complaints - no one answers them," Demashkin complained. It should be reminded that on January 26, the chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev announced an increase in UAV production to continue the war in Ukraine.