MOSCOW. Nov 29 (Interfax-AVN) - The defense committee of the Russian State Duma lower house of parliament will hold an extramural session in Kaliningrad on December 3 to 4, committee chairman Andrei Nikolayev told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
The session will be devoted to legal protection of servicemen and people who have retired from military service and are living in the Kaliningrad region.
The region's level of social tensions among servicemen is one of the highest in Russia, Nikolayev said. According to him, "it happens because many servicemen and military pensioners do not have their own flats." According to the committee's data, over 6,500 people of those categories need their living conditions to be improved in the Kaliningrad region.
At the same time the regional authorities stopped the construction of 29 houses comprising over 15,000 flats due to poor budget financing. "The region has received a bit over RUB90m (USD3m) to complete those houses this year though the real need is 10 times higher and makes RUB945m (USD31.56m).
Apart from the defense committee members the session will involve officials of the Duma committees on security, budget and taxes, labor and social policy, standing order and organization of work in the Duma, as well as of the security and defense committee of the Federation Council upper house.
According to Nikolayev, participants in the session might find acceptable solutions to social problems of servicemen and military pensioners living in the region.