Russians are buying up apartments in Minsk en masse — in The State Duma reacted to this

Russian citizens massively purchase real estate in the capital of Belarus. This was reported in the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre (MGA).

"In March alone, 126 real estate objects were registered in our agency for citizens of the Russian Federation under purchase and sale agreements," the message said.

If we take into account that in total 1,284 transactions in Minsk were recorded in the database of the National Cadastral Agency in March, then the share of real estate purchases by Russians in the capital of Belarus was about 10%.

"Buying through a contract of sale, barter or other transactions — everything is legal," the MGA reported.

Later, the situation was commented on in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. According to Andrei Svintsov, Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Russians buy apartments in Minsk because they want to have housing away from their usual places of existence.

"I think that the purchase of apartments by Russians in Minsk is a completely normal situation, because a huge number of international markets have closed, and our citizens want to have some kind of housing, a cottage, an apartment somewhere far from the places where they used to live. I don't think this is a mass migration. I believe that Belarus is a really comfortable country and our fraternal state, in fact, a single union of Russia and Belarus," he said.

Recall, Belarus and Russia is building a Union state. The right of Russian citizens to purchase real estate in Minsk is enshrined in the law "On the Legal status of Foreign Citizens". There are no restrictions on the types of real estate: apartment, house, office.