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On Wednesday, the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania rejected the complaint of the builders – “Moscow Business and Culture Center – Moscow House” regarding the non-issuance of a building permit for “Moscow House”, the municipality announced. from Vilnius.
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius declared that the court decision had reached the end point in the history of the dispute between the municipality and the “House of Moscow”.
“We are right not to allow more construction, and Moscow House is wrong. Let’s not be foolish. I am glad that now, after the final and unappealable decision of the court, you are saying this not only for me and for the Municipality of Vilnius, but also for our state. Thank you! “- said R. Šimašius in the report.
“Such a court decision restricts the freedom of economic activity guaranteed to the” House of Moscow “by the Constitution, (…) without applying this restriction, the important value for the whole society – national security – would be violated”, the municipality state.
According to her, the court also noted that the builders themselves had not proven that the “Moscow House” would not pose a threat to national security.
Representatives of the SACL BNS stated that the file is not public.
In July 2020, the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court also rejected the builders’ complaint about the non-issuance of a building permit. According to him, the decision of the municipality to refuse to coordinate the building’s design proposals, based on information from the State Security Department (SSD), is justified.
The Moscow House of Culture and Business Center, the public institution that built the Moscow House, asked the court to reverse the municipality’s decision to reject the building’s design proposals and force it to reconsider them.
Later, the municipality explained its opposition to the construction because it had received information from the SSD that the function of the project represented a risk to the security of the country. In 2018, R. Šimašius said that “the object is a propaganda tool of the Kremlin and represents a threat to the national security of Lithuania.”
The 2017 SSD National Security Threat Assessment states that the prospects for the Moscow House project in Vilnius “have relatively high symbolic and practical significance for Russia as a potential instrument of its influence, compatriot politics and public diplomacy. “.
The builders had to obtain the permit again after in 2016 the Vilnius City District Court partially satisfied the claim of the Building Inspectorate and revoked the building permit issued in 2008.
The builders, in turn, had to redesign the project within three years, obtain a building permit and reduce the building to one floor. The deadline for obtaining the building permit was on November 30, 2020 and for the demolition of the building, on May 30, 2021.
In March 2020, the Vilnius Regional Court decided to extend this deadline for two years.
The Building Inspectorate had indicated to the court that, according to the detailed plan approved by the municipality, A.Juozapavičiaus str. 30 A six-story building was to be built in Vilnius, at that time seven stories appeared in the Moscow House project. The Inspection indicated that the construction density of the parcel was violated and was determined in the detailed plan, instead of 70%. it was 74 percent.
The idea of building a Moscow house in Vilnius was born in July 2004, when the then mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, visited the celebrations of the 750th anniversary of the coronation of King Mindaugas. So it was decided to carry out a similar project in Moscow.
It was announced that these houses would be a center for cultural and commercial cooperation, the aim of which is to create and further develop good neighborly relations between Moscow and Vilnius.
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