Losing your rights as a Russian citizen

[norrin 3]

Ok guys this is a very long story so I won't bore you with it all didn't know where to post this tis my best guess. Ok my wife Natasha, from St. Petersburg never had her apartment privatized. However her brother has been living in "her" room and has been paying all the bills on her behalf as one of 4 registered people in the apartment. My question is will she be required to unregister since she no longer lives there or can she assign her portion (government owned) or "sublease" to her brother or anyone else for that matter. I know there is such a thing as a permanent guest. What one of the tenants is trying to do is claim she abandoned the apartment so he wants it all assigned to him and then privatize? Any thoughts? suggestions? Her brother meets with with a lawyer on Thursday but is there anything we can do in the meantime?

Any thoughts will be appreciated thanks,

Frank

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Ok guys this is a very long story so I won't bore you with it all didn't know where to post this tis my best guess. Ok my wife Natasha, from St. Petersburg never had her apartment privatized. However her brother has been living in "her" room and has been paying all the bills on her behalf as one of 4 registered people in the apartment. My question is will she be required to unregister since she no longer lives there or can she assign her portion (government owned) or "sublease" to her brother or anyone else for that matter. I know there is such a thing as a permanent guest. What one of the tenants is trying to do is claim she abandoned the apartment so he wants it all assigned to him and then privatize? Any thoughts? suggestions? Her brother meets with with a lawyer on Thursday but is there anything we can do in the meantime?

Any thoughts will be appreciated thanks,

Frank

Her probllem is sharing an apartment with greedy people in one of the most sought after cities to gain permission to live.

The law requires her to keep the government updated on where she lives, Ukraine is the same. Of course if you own your own apartment you can just OOPS, forget to do so. Especially if someone you trust, like your mother owns an apartment across the street and checks in on the place for you.

When someone else can gain something for themselves by screwing you over, then just figure they will do so. This is not "losing her rights" as a Russian citizen. she has no "right" to an apartment she does not own in a city she does not live in.

In a city that people line up to get permission to live in (you know that you cannot just live anywhere in Russia, right?) they are not likely to allow her to assign her government owned portion of the flat to whoever she wants. If it were a village in the Urals, maybe. In St, Petersburg...good luck

Then again, bribery is the way of the world in Russia and if the lawyer knows the right person to give the right amount of money to...maybe.