The St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office demanded that more than 10 buildings and sites be returned to the USC plant.

The St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office appealed to the court with a demand to restore the ownership of the Proletarian Plant, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), to more than 10 buildings and land plots. This is evidenced by the materials of the arbitration case.

"The Deputy Prosecutor of St. Petersburg appealed to the arbitration court <...> with the following requirements: <...> restore in the Unified State Register of Real Estate the record of ownership rights for PJSC Proletarian Plant for real estate," the court ruling says.

The defendants in the case were two individual entrepreneurs and five companies. According to the court's materials, in the 2000s they privatized more than ten non-residential buildings and land plots under them on Dudko Street in St. Petersburg, where the company is located. As part of the interim measures, the court seized the property that became the subject of the proceedings.

Objective limitation period: the time limit for challenging privatization will be limited to 10 years

How will this protect business interests, and why won't it affect anti-corruption and anti-extremist lawsuits

On May 26, the State Duma adopted in the second and third readings a law setting limitation periods in cases challenging the privatization of state or municipal property. The document amends the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. According to the new rules, if violations were committed during the transfer of property to private ownership, the limitation period will be three years from the moment they became known.