Fighting against property speculation in the streets of Moscow
Throughout the whole of the summer of 2007, the Russian capital has been the scene of pitched battle in at least 15 neighbourhoods.
As property speculation takes off, the inhabitants group together in committees to defend their houses against the so-called “high density construction” (uplotnitelniy zastroiki), or building of new apartment blocks, mostly with the aim of speculating (shopping centres or housing for the elite).
