Primorie Urges Federal Security Service to Move Away from Border
The brawl related to extension of the boundary regime territory doesn’t cease in Primorie. Yesterday, Svoboda Vybora (Freedom of Choice) and Anti-Corruption Coalition public organizations addressed a letter to Nikolay Patrushev, chief of Federal Security Service, asking him to exclude traditional places of holiday resorts from the border area.
Leaders of Svodoba Vybora and Anti-Corruption Coalition, Vladimir Litvinov and Vitaly Beregovsky, stepped in to urge Federal Security Service Chief Nikolay Patrushev to exclude the coastal territory from the border area that was extended by April 14 ruling.
“The border area extended to territory that isn’t directly adjacent to the ground border of the RF. It included the whole coast of Primorie region and the Lake of Khanka, which have been the places of vacation for the Far East residents for 15 years. Illegal addition of traditional pleasure resorts to the border area will prompt Primorie residents and tourists from other regions of Russia to apply various corrupt procedures to urgently arrange the vacation they are used to,” said the letter of Litvinov.
Moreover, under the Act on State Border and the Water Code, Vitaly Beregovsky reminded Patrushev, the border in the coastal territory is designated at 22km of the shore approximately, but for the area directly bordering North Korea. So, there was no need to extend the border to the shore, Beregovsky pointed out.
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