A man looks at the plate reading "No Parking, Sole Passage!" during the rally staged by supporters of the "Caution Religion" art exhibition near the Prosecutor General's office.
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Muscovites Fined Subsoil, on the Walls and in Garages
Moscow Duma proceeds with the draft of the Moscow Code of Administrative Violation, which imposes a number of new restrictions. The deputies, for instance, have sealed the clauses stipulating administrative liability for parking in the yard or installing an unauthorized garage there. Diggers and graffito painters will be outlawed as well.
The Moscow Code of Administrative Violation includes 23 regulations that define responsibility for various law infringements. Moscow legislators decided to consider the 76-page document in parts. Yesterday, the time had come for diggers and owners of cheap garages, which could be easily installed in the yards.
The deputies reasoned to fine diggers from 1,500 rubles to 2,000 rubles “for unauthorized penetration into subsoil utilities.” Having done away with the diggers, the deputies focused on fighting graffiti painters, who will have to pay up to 300 rubles for painting on the walls.
The drivers proved most unlucky yesterday. They will be fined for washing cars outside the specially allotted territory and for parking on the territory of children’s playground, on the grass and areas with trees or bushes as well as for parking on the roads of the yards if it hinders mechanized clearing of the streets or garbage removal.
“Under these regulations, any driver, who has parked a car in the yard could be called a violator,” said lawyer Leonid Olshansky, who is vice president of Russia’s Automobilists Movement. The actual purpose is “to make Muscovites buy expensive garages. Proposed actions will complete this undertaking – Moscow has parking-meter zones and car evacuators, only the yards have remained so far.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 30, 2005
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