I got a letter from two servicemen in the Moscow region who had been transferred to the reserve on grounds of age, asking for my help in fixing a problem with the status of their housing. They needed to get the flats occupied by their families removed from the army’s list of service flats. What happened was that when they were retired off there was some misunderstanding and the two servicemen were allocated army flats rather than normal ones.
They’ve tried to solve the problem many times through the appropriate government departments, but failed. So then they decided to turn for help to the State Duma deputies, including me. The idea of applying to the Federal Assembly had been suggested to them by a fellow serviceman, who had managed to resolve a similar problem after writing to the Federation Council.
In early September I sent off a deputy’s request to the Russian Minister of Defence, Anatoliy Eduardovich Serdyukov, and got a very quick reply. Two weeks later there was a call from the Main Housing Administration Division: It turned out that they were already aware of the servicemen’s problems and were working on a solution.
The case has now been finally resolved in favour of the servicemen. According to the head of the Division’s Housing Team social rent agreements have been signed with the men and the flats have been removed from the list of army service flats.