Medvedev Urges Governors Not to Give Apartments to Celebrities

The Moscow Times
Thursday 21st March, 2013

Dmitry Medvedev has urged regional governors to exercise self-restraint in giving away apartments to newly crowned Russian citizens because it “causes social tensions,” a news report said Thursday. “I would recommend that some governors bestow apartments more carefully, because we have a long queue for them, and people cannot always avail themselves of mortgage services,” Medvedev said at a news conference on Wednesday, Interfax reported. “And when it is not the poorest people receiving an apartment as a gift, this, of course, causes social tensions,” he said. His comments came in response …

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