According to preliminary estimates of experts, the residence has a rich landscape diversity.
The territory of the government residence” Mezhyhirya “will receive the status of a park-monument of landscape art of national importance: the relevant request of the Ministry of Environment agreed government, a draft presidential decree is being prepared.
“The Ministry of Environment, at the initiative of the Prime Minister, is starting the official process of transforming the government residence” Mezhyhirya “into a state park-monument. I hope that in the near future the favorite place of Ukrainian and foreign tourists in Kyiv region will become a protected area, such as “Feofania”, “Mariinsky Park” or “Holosiivsky Forest”, – said Minister Ruslan Strelets.
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The Case of Mezhyhirya
“Mezhyhirya” is a tract with an estate in the village of Novi Petrivtsi, Kyiv region, which is In 1935 it served as the state residence . Until 2007, it was state-owned, but in 2007 it passed into the hands of then-Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Such misappropriation was declared illegal by the Prosecutor General's Office.
After Yanukovych fled Ukraine in 2014, the Verkhovna Rada voted for the transfer of Mezhyhirya to state ownership. In November 2017, by the decision of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine “Mezhyhirya” was finally transferred to state ownership .
In October 2016, the Prosecutor General's Office informed Viktor Yanukovych and his son Oleksandr about suspicions of taking over Mezhyhirya and legalizing it./strong> .
In June 2018, Pechersk District Court of Kyiv transferred Mezhyhirya to the management of the Agency for Search and Management of Assets (ARMA).
