SAKHALIN
LABOR
INSPECTORATE TO MOVE INTO FORMER JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES' KINGDOM
HALL
The
State Inspection
of Labor in Sakhalin oblast is ready for the move. As of today,
its office in
Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk is located at 38 Anton Buiukla Street. The new
home of the
labor inspectorate will be the former Kingdom Hall of the
Jehovah's Witnesses,
located at 676 Prospect Pobedy.
In 2017,
the Russian
Supreme Court ordered the liquidation of the international
religious
organization of Jehovah's Witnesses and the prohibition of its
activity on the
territory of the country. Sakhalin Jehovists were based in the
Kingdom Hall at
676 Prospect Pobedy, but after the organization was ruled to be
extremist, the
building was transferred into the jurisdiction of
Rosimushchestvo.
By order
of the
Federal State Property Management Agency [i.e.,
Rosimushchestvo], the empty
Kingdom Hall was transferred to the jurisdiction of the
operational management
of the State Inspection of Labor in Sakhalin oblast. The
building will be used
for conducting state supervision and enforcement of compliance
with labor laws
in the island region. The date for the move has not been
specified.
At
present, the
office at 38 Anton Buiukla Street is also under the
administration of the
inspectorate. After the move, the question of transfer of the
premises will be
resolved jointly with the Federal State Property Management
Agency.
We
recall that
earlier the city administration of Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk had plans
for the former
Kingdom Hall. Mayor Sergei Nadsadin said at a press conference
in July 2018
that there is an excellent concert hall inside, which students
of the
children's music school would like to use. But conversations
with
Rosimushchestvo did not bear fruit and the building was not
turned over to the
administration. (tr. by PDS, posted 3 March 2020)
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