We previously described another round of scams by the occupiers involving the “reclamation of unused agricultural land” on the peninsula.
The stated “reasons” for the land seizures were “ownerlessness,” “abandonment,” or “improper exploitation.”
Now, occupied Crimea is facing a new wave of land seizures, similar to those seen in the neighboring Russian Krasnodar Krai.
This involves the mass “exclusion of land plots from the boundaries of populated areas with their subsequent reclassification as agricultural land.”
Meanwhile, private owners of these lands, converted from “urban to rural” lands, are effectively deprived of their property, affecting 27,000 people in Krasnodar alone.
The inevitability of a repeat of this scenario in Crimea follows from the nominal participants in the relevant scams, namely the St. Petersburg “private” firm “Research Institute of Advanced Urban Development,” registered to certain Sergei Mityagin and Pavel Spirin, which is laundering “contracts for developing amendments to general plans” with local municipalities in Kuban on a massive scale.
It is precisely on the basis of these “plan amendments” that the aforementioned “squeezing” of thousands of plots is taking place.
And we are not so much interested in the true beneficiaries of this firm, through which half a billion rubles were laundered in the Krasnodar Krai alone and in 2025 alone, as in its “Crimean connection.”
After all, it was through the “results of the work” of the “Research Institute of Advanced Urban Development” in 2016-2019 that “general plans” and “amendments thereto” for dozens of settlements in the AR of Crimea and Sevastopol were “approved.”
It’s clear that the “border changes” for Crimean cities with their considerable land areas, including coastal ones, for the subsequent “squeezing” of the remaining territories “beyond the border,” now, for a “modest half a billion,” will be carried out through the same front men from St. Petersburg.
