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On 1 June a federal TV channel showed a video saying that an ancient French park with a cascade of ponds left from the Opalikha-Alekseyevskaya estate in Krasnogorsk may be cut down and built up with apartment buildings. The video says that the park is a cultural heritage site. According to mass media an independent examination is now underway and if it recognizes the unique park as a swamp with dead standing trees, it will be built up with houses.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has ordered the Moscow Region Directorate to run a check and thoroughly look into all the circumstances of passing the park from federal to private ownership and to decide whether the actions of the developer are legal.

Official spokesperson for the RF Investigative Committee                                                                              S.L. Petrenko