The chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to check media reports that an ecovillage Aminovka is planned to be built in the village of Nechesovo in the Shakhovsky district of the Moscow region.

“The media are expressing fears that a religious enclave is planned to be created in this territory and that some threats are already coming to the residents of nearby territories. One of the publications also suggests that this settlement is being created for a religious sect, ”the statement on the website of the Investigative Committee says .

This week, several publications spoke about the planned construction of a closed “Islamic” , “Muslim” and even “halal” village 140 kilometers from Moscow. The settlement of Aminovka was named after the creator of the brand of Muslim clothing for women Irada Amina Shabanova, who is the organizer of the construction.

Shabanova says she wanted to create a settlement where “like-minded people” could live. Aminovka’s website says that the goal of the project is “to unite in one settlement to create a community of mature, conscious people.” The project’s instagram mentions that Aminovka is “about awareness, purity, preserving high values, raising a healthy generation”. Islam is not mentioned in the materials on the project website.

The settlement is planned to be built on 83 hectares of land “surrounded by a river, forest and fields,” according to the project’s website. The cost of a land plot in Aminovka ranges from 420 thousand rubles for 12 acres to 1.2 million for 50 acres. On the territory of the village they plan to create a school, a kindergarten, a prayer house, a gym, a farmer’s store, and a small hotel. Now there is electricity on the border of the settlement, in the future they are going to install gas and water supply.

The chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to check media reports that an ecovillage Aminovka is planned to be built in the village of Nechesovo in the Shakhovsky district of the Moscow region.

“The media are expressing fears that a religious enclave is planned to be created in this territory and that some threats are already coming to the residents of nearby territories. One of the publications also suggests that this settlement is being created for a religious sect, ”the statement on the website of the Investigative Committee says .

This week, several publications spoke about the planned construction of a closed “Islamic” , “Muslim” and even “halal” village 140 kilometers from Moscow. The settlement of Aminovka was named after the creator of the brand of Muslim clothing for women Irada Amina Shabanova, who is the organizer of the construction.

Shabanova says she wanted to create a settlement where “like-minded people” could live. Aminovka’s website says that the goal of the project is “to unite in one settlement to create a community of mature, conscious people.” The project’s instagram mentions that Aminovka is “about awareness, purity, preserving high values, raising a healthy generation”. Islam is not mentioned in the materials on the project website.

The settlement is planned to be built on 83 hectares of land “surrounded by a river, forest and fields,” according to the project’s website. The cost of a land plot in Aminovka ranges from 420 thousand rubles for 12 acres to 1.2 million for 50 acres. On the territory of the village they plan to create a school, a kindergarten, a prayer house, a gym, a farmer’s store, and a small hotel. Now there is electricity on the border of the settlement, in the future they are going to install gas and water supply.

Komsomolskaya Pravda published the rules for living in the eco-settlement (it was not possible to find them in the public domain, their authenticity has not been confirmed). They say that representatives of non-traditional sexual orientation are not allowed in the village. Residents must adhere to the dress code: men are required to wear clothes that cover the torso, and women – “opaque and not tight clothes below the knee length” without a neckline. It is forbidden to smoke, drink alcohol, use drugs, swear at the territory of the settlement, raise pigs. The media noted that candidates wishing to buy a plot in the settlement would be approved by the supervisory board.

“Komsomolskaya Pravda” in an article dedicated to the future village, talked about terrorists and radical Islamists. The TV channel “Tsargrad”, in turn, called Aminovka “the business scam of the century” and compared the settlement with a sect.

After media attention to Aminovka, the press secretary of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Moscow Region Stanislav Tokarev said that he was sympathetic to the idea of ​​creating such a settlement. “In such places, not only like-minded people gather, but fellow believers. This helps to reduce the impact of some external negative factors that do not coincide with the institutions of Islam, ”he said.

Amina Shabanova herself, commenting on media reports, said that she was “surprised not even by flashy headlines, but by how people inattentively read or highlight accents.” “In our settlement, plots are bought by Orthodox families too. And also the Muslim intelligentsia: candidates of sciences, professors, scientists, government officials, wonderful and wonderful people! ” She said. Ruslan Kurbanov, a journalist and political scientist, who is going to live in the village, said on the air of the Moskva 24 TV channel that two Orthodox families had indeed decided to buy plots of land here.

Komsomolskaya Pravda published the rules for living in the eco-settlement (it was not possible to find them in the public domain, their authenticity has not been confirmed). They say that representatives of non-traditional sexual orientation are not allowed in the village. Residents must adhere to the dress code: men are required to wear clothes that cover the torso, and women – “opaque and not tight clothes below the knee length” without a neckline. It is forbidden to smoke, drink alcohol, use drugs, swear at the territory of the settlement, raise pigs. The media noted that candidates wishing to buy a plot in the settlement would be approved by the supervisory board.

“Komsomolskaya Pravda” in an article dedicated to the future village, talked about terrorists and radical Islamists. The TV channel “Tsargrad”, in turn, called Aminovka “the business scam of the century” and compared the settlement with a sect.

After media attention to Aminovka, the press secretary of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Moscow Region Stanislav Tokarev said that he was sympathetic to the idea of ​​creating such a settlement. “In such places, not only like-minded people gather, but fellow believers. This helps to reduce the impact of some external negative factors that do not coincide with the institutions of Islam, ”he said.

Amina Shabanova herself, commenting on media reports, said that she was “surprised not even by flashy headlines, but by how people inattentively read or highlight accents.” “In our settlement, plots are bought by Orthodox families too. And also the Muslim intelligentsia: candidates of sciences, professors, scientists, government officials, wonderful and wonderful people! ” She said. Ruslan Kurbanov, a journalist and political scientist, who is going to live in the village, said on the air of the Moskva 24 TV channel that two Orthodox families had indeed decided to buy plots of land here.

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