Patriarch Kirill is going to donate to charities all money earned in case over the flat in the House on the Embankment
Moscow, March 30, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia told about nuances of judicial proceedings connected with his flat in the famous House on the Embankment in downtown Moscow.
He has recently met with renowned TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov who cited the Primate’s story on air the Vesti FM radio station.
“Suddenly my sister called me and said that they could not live in this flat any more: it’s impossible to stay there, you start choking in ten minutes. His Holiness came up and saw that the whole flat was covered not only with dust, but there’s a feeling that you’re in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear dust had covered everything,” the journalist said.
Earlier some media reported, that legal proceedings over Patriarch Kirill’s flat on the Embankment undergo in Moscow. As was reported, the Patriarch’s representatives try to sue the master of the neighboring flat – Health ex-Minister Georgy Shevchenko for his flat and 20 million rubles for the damage inflicted on the Primate’s property in the result of repairs works.
Meanwhile, Solovyov further said, the repairs works were underway in the priest’s flat: “people blocked air ducts, started knocking out the space inside and all this building dust was going up.”
“The Primate said: “I don’t want to be involved in it, act according to the law. My sister is registered in the flat, so do everything according to the law: call to the residential committee, to the sanitary epidemic control, to everyone who had to deal with it. I won’t participate in any proceedings,” he said.
The respondent refused to pay, legal experts started working, and “it came down to such talks: then give up the flat.”
“No one ever spoke of taking the flat, it refers to compensation of the sum. I asked him: “And why couldn’t you forgive him.” “There always been such an option, but it would be incorrect, though I tried as I could, for example instead of double clearing of the flat I agreed to the single one and it significantly reduced the sum of (claimed – IF) money,” Solovyov cited the Patriarch as saying.
The Primate stressed that all the claimed money would be donated to charities.
The Patriarch also said that the flat was given to him by the city. It was not equipped for living as it is not a flat, but an extension on the roof. The authorities offered him to buy another flat, but it turned out to be very expensive, especially considering that there was no money to pay salary in the Department for External Church Relations then headed by the acting Patriarch, and he refused.
