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Ukraine prepares to give free rein to property developers

Critics fear a new planning law will hand power to property developers and put Ukraine’s historic buildings at risk

Ukraine prepares to give free rein to property developers
Residents of Dmytro Perov's grandmother's building in Kyiv, originally constructed in 1898, were evicted in 1979 - and the building fell into disrepair | Image: Ivan Zaiets. All rights reserved
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At first, Dmytro Perov didn’t believe his grandmother’s stories about ancient caves beneath the courtyard of the 19th-century building where his family had once lived in Kyiv.

“I thought someone had just made it up,” the lawyer and activist told openDemocracy.

But plans to build a new residential complex on the site spurred him to investigate his grandmother’s story.