Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered...

The Moscow authorities say the dwellers of the Rechnik settlement on the bank of the Moskva River illegally built their homes on the land of a specially protected city park. Demolition of houses is underway, but the residents argue they were granted the land during the Soviet era and insist that their right to live there be recognized.

"The president is aware of the situation in the Rechnik settlement... The president ordered the Prosecutor General"s Office and the Kremlin administration"s control department to check whether rights of citizens, who own land parcels and buildings in individual territories in the city of Moscow, are upheld," Natalya Timakova told journalists.

Some 20 houses have been already demolished in the Rechnik settlement, and 15 others are still to be demolished.

Timakova said the president "ordered to check the legality of [court] decisions on the demolition of the buildings."

The residents or their late relatives received land plots

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