Chief justice calls to end early privatization disputes

MOSCOW, January 29 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Chief Constitutional
Justice Valery Zorkin proposed to amend property legislation and end
disputes about tricky privatization in the country in the '90s.
The amendments shall fix inviolability of lawfully acquired property
and make it serve common cause, Zorkin said in an interview published by
Rossiyskaya gazeta on Friday.
The amendments "shall be based on the unity of two fundamental
constitutional basics of property title. The unity is expressed, firstly,
in guarantees of inviolability of any lawfully acquired property, in the
freedom of its possession and disposal. And secondly, - in ideas of
socializing property, in ideals that make property serve the common cause
regardless of its form and owner:" he said.
"Simply saying, in the sphere of legal protection of property it is
necessary to do what was forgotten during privatization of the 1990s. It
is necessary to implement the "property obliges" principle," he said.
The chief justice said property cases have flooded the Constitutional
court of late. In 2009 there were ten thousand claims related to property
issues and fair distribution of incomes from it.
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