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ARTICLE · 31 MAY 2016

"Freezing" Of Construction/Reconstruction Around "Unprotected" "Free-Standing" Monuments

It should be noted that the Federal Law empowers the Committee on the State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of History and Culture (KGIOP) to make decisions on establishing a Protection Zone of other dimensions.

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The new protection zones around monuments are intended for the temporary protection of monuments for which preservation zones have not yet been established and which are not situated in the preservation zone of another monument (or within an integrated preservation zone) for the period until approval of the respective zones.

The Russian Federation has adopted and is slated to enact as of 3 October 2016 Federal Law No. 95-FZ dated 5 April 2016 "On the Introduction of Amendments to the Federal Law 'On the Objects of Cultural Heritage (Monuments of History and Culture) of the Peoples of the Russian Federation' and Article 15 of the Federal Law 'On the State Real Estate Cadastre'" (hereinafter – the "Federal Law").

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