It is impossible to demolish – a new series of the project “On Monday it will reach Lukashenko!”

You can't build it! Where is the comma in this sentence? The new series “Monday will reach Lukashenko!” is dedicated to the video, which has already gained more than 45 thousand views. The man bought a house in the village, wanted to demolish and build a new one in its place. But on his own, he said, he has no right to do so. You need to first create a commission, recognize the house as unsuitable, apply for demolition, and this all costs money, not to mention the fact that it is impossible to build on the same project, which was originally. You have to pay and run for officials. Is it really as described by the author? How have local authorities responded? We will discuss this case in the program “On Monday it will reach Lukashenko!”. What's the point? “We need to revive the village,” the President said more than once. Buy the land, gentrify, live. And the authorities even encourage people to buy houses in the countryside with various preferences. But buying is one thing. And then what? What to do if you want to demolish the house and build your own, and to do it on your site, as it turned out, not so easy.

The program showed the original video posted online. The text read as follows:

“I bought a house here. Thought I'd help my son build a house. But you can see the building. He began to gradually ennoble, everything was a weed, the garden is so old, overgrown. Now I come and ask, can I demolish this house and start construction now? No, you have no right. What do we do next? We need to go, it turns out, to pay there about two hundred rubles to create a commission, she came, looked, made a conclusion. You have no right to do so.”.

Everything that happens, according to the author of the video, his name is Mikhail, is bureaucratic obstacles. Obtaining certificates and permission requires constant costs, and officials need to go and ask.

“I have a plan. In order not to pay money again, you need to pay money for the project. I'm going to build a house in the same place. No, you have to order the project again, pay the money. Man must build, again, a time frame of three years. I'm not going to make it in three years, I don't have that kind of money. So I'll be a self-builder, slowly, three years, five years. What do you think? I want to hear your opinion. When will the authorities begin to pass laws for the people, — said in a video posted on the network.

The video got 45,000 views. The comments read: "Listen to no one, demolish and build your own, documents after." To understand the situation, the journalists went to the place where the site is located, in the agro-town Onoshki Nesvizhsky district. Is everything really as the author of the video says? Natalia and Mikhail Matus purchased the site in January 2025, just a few meters from their son. Legally formalized the land and began to gradually ennoble.

- The garden was cleaned for a year. See what trees were there? The whole site was planted like this. It was necessary to remove everything, uproot, reduce, burn, says the author of the video Mikhail Matus, showing the film crew the site. For fifteen or eighteen years, nobody planted anything here, did nothing. Let's fix it up. Slowly, slowly.

Natalia Matus, the wife of Michael, emphasizes:

- They fenced everything with their own hands, with their own means. Not fast, of course, it all costs money. Our time is a little limited.

The spouses themselves have been engaged in agricultural work for twenty years. They took the land under the management of a personal subsidiary farm, they grow cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, beets for sale.

- How many are there? the reporter said.

- Twenty acres. They kind of give under the house twenty (hundreds. — Approx. ed.), and if you want more, you need to write a statement, — says Natalia Matus.

Showing the plot and land on it, the woman stressed:

- Then the tractor was made more than once, brought manure.

Her husband, Michael Matus, added:

- In the first year, we squashed it all, plowed it over. And I'm three or four times in the summer -- it rises, I cultivate, I rise, I cultivate. They didn’t plant anything all summer, they cultivated it all season.

- Just cleaned up, cleaned up. Only this year we planted hot peppers, some trees, potatoes were earlier, chrysanthemums. The first year when this land began to give us something, says Natalia Matus.

Then they realized and bought the house with the expectation that it would be demolished. The foundation, the roof... You don’t have to be a builder or an architect to understand that you can’t live here anymore.

- They took everything out. There was no Paul, the house is like this, pre-war still, says Natalia Matus.

The wife of the woman, Mikhail Matus, draws attention to the fact that the house is built not on the foundation, but on stones

- These are old houses. Inside the devastation, it is shameful to bring you here, he says, talking to a journalist. - Grandpa lived here. A grandson came from Minsk, he formalized it and lived here for ten or twelve years. My grandson's gone now. The plot was bought for nothing. Of course, not for the base, there for 500-600 dollars. You still have to give someone something.

Then, according to Michael Matus, the question arose, what to do with the house?

- We have to reconstruct it somehow. It is already collapsing, we need a new one, he explains.

They immediately started collecting information. The first thing they say is that they are the first ones. - Editor's note, at BRTI.

- We came to Nesvizh. It is necessary somehow according to the law to issue not what we took, removed and fines fell. We're at BRTI. We were told to set up a commission so that they would recognize it as dilapidated housing. That is, 60 percent if they prove that non-residential premises, then they give permission for demolition. What should I do? You need to sign up, pay, says Natalia Matus. - All right, we're doing farm work. We somehow learned what to do.

Her husband, Mikhail Matus, notes that the building is his and he himself has the right to decide whether to demolish it:

- We are amazed that we do not decide ourselves – we demolish, complete, do not finish.

Head of the Nesvizh Bureau of the Dzerzhinsk branch of the Minsk Regional Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre Andrey Pigul in an interview with the journalist explained that he could not find out who he (Mikhail Matus. – Ed.) addressed and with what questions.

- So, no records? – asked the journalist.

- No, nothing. No statements, even written appeals or any oral, nothing was received, said Andrey Pigul.

- And when they talked to him, they probably found out something or asked, maybe where he turned, the journalist said.

- He didn't say specifically. Then he (Mikhail Matus. – Approx. ed.) says about the land department, about our bureau, then there are some people suggested to him, then he read something on the Internet, said Andrei Pigul.

In response, Michael Matus said the following:

- I go to an official or at the same BRTI. If I turn on the camera, it's not to defame anyone. Maybe I forgot something, some subtleties, nuances. Who gave you permission to shoot?

It is supplemented by his wife Natalia:

- I mean, you know, it turns out they're not allowed to shoot. And when we asked him who he was, he said to us, “You did not ask him.” People came to the club and said, “I was on vacation.” I mean, how were you on vacation when I talked to you? Then we went to the archives, and the woman said, yes, we need a commission. But she should not have given such answers, it turns out. They say you invented it, you invented it, it's not true. Who did you have a last name? I mean, I have to come right away with a piece of paper, your name, what did you say? Do I have to pay for what procedures? According to the head of the Department of housing, architecture and construction Nesvizh district Executive Committee Julia Konishcheva, today there are two ways to demolish a residential house.

- The first option - you can contact the service "One window" of the district executive committee, recognize the house unsuitable for living, inappropriate sanitary or technical requirements and apply for its demolition. These administrative procedures are free of charge.

The journalist asked the specialist whether to pay 300 rubles for the commission. Yulia Konishcheva explained that it is not necessary to pay for the commission, as Mikhail Matus said in the video. This is a wrong argument, she stressed.

- As for the second method, this is the case when the person has already demolished the house. This is his actual, shall we say, absence from the station. And then there are administrative procedures that are carried out by the registering authority.

Mikhail Matus notes that in order to build a house, you need a project:

- It's money again. Everything has to be legalized, and that's money, too.

As Yulia Konishcheva explained, today the legislation, namely the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Architectural, Urban Planning and Construction Activities, allows citizens living in rural areas to carry out construction at will without permitting project documentation in the presence of a certificate of state registration for a land plot.

- Just in our case, the applicants have such a right, the expert said. That is, you can demolish a house and build a new one in the village without permits. After construction, it is necessary to register. The house must be physically demolished. We make an act of doom, in his case. – Michael Matus We have already calculated, it will cost 64 rubles. Do the termination of the address - it will cost 18 rubles 4 kopecks. And the termination of the registration of the capital structure will cost 27 rubles in accordance with Decree No. 200 of the President, Andrei Pigul said.

- Is it all calculated individually? And a person, when demolishing a house, must necessarily turn to you to establish all these documents, or only after he builds a house.

Answering the question, Andrei Pigul explained:

- We can't control whether he demolished it or not if he didn't. We have a declarative principle. He can even build a new one next to him, and we will do it at the same time – stop the old one when he disassembles it, and register a new one.

- But it's all legal? That is, he can demolish the house, then build without your knowledge and only then he must necessarily get this technical passport.

To which the expert receives an affirmative response:

- Register, of course. The right of ownership arises from the moment of state registration. We leave, do surveys, measurements, photo fixation, and draw. Depending on the area of the house up to 200 rubles somewhere village house. I think he is unlikely to build a big house there, says Andrei Pigul. The couple explained that when they came and asked, they were ready to sign up for the commission to come.

- There is clearly 65 percent more dilapidated housing. We were ready to pay, but only a little later. We got a job, we couldn't do it fast. A little, I don’t know, boiled, not boiled, says Natalia Matus.

Showing the house standing on the site from the inside, the hostess explained that now everything is cleaned up inside.

- If we knew it could be done right away, everything would be clean. Well, we're waiting to get some fines, so it's not illegal. We can clean up without commission. We have our own tractor, trailer. Slowly out there, somewhere, something... she says.

Andrey Pigul, in response, notes:

- We had to come either to my appointment or to our receptionists. We would have told [the Matus family] everything there and no such questions would have arisen. But it is necessary to build according to clear rules: the distance is not less than three meters from the border of the neighboring site and not less than two meters between farm buildings. As for the terms for how many years you need to build a house, such restrictions are only for those to whom the site was given. Anyone who buys can build for five or ten years. Another question that Mikhail Matus raised in an interview with the journalist was the extraction of the tree. The man said:

I say I want to write down a tree, because if you buy at a commercial price, it is expensive. For those who build in the village, the preferential price is significant, because the amount is reduced taking into account the discount by almost half. But you need to write to the district executive committee, they will not just be, they will require a project. Again, we need a project, again, we need money. We have to go, ask someone, look.

Yulia Konishcheva draws attention to the fact that the package of documents of the forestry includes accurate permits for home ownership.

- They can't tell you how much forest. They're looking at a specification, maybe a project, how much forest is needed. But it's not a district executive committee procedure. Yes, the tree will be sold at a discounted price. So, go to the store and buy it anyway. When a person builds at his own expense, he is absolutely free to choose the path in terms of construction, which he wants to go. We have a low practice of construction without permits, — said the expert.

Another issue was the removal of municipal waste. Tree branches can be burned on the land. Of course, in compliance with all fire protection requirements. The removal of construction waste can be organized either by yourself or call special equipment.

- I'm coming, they tell me I have to pay the money and take the garbage card you brought to the landfill. The chairman of the district executive committee told everyone to take coupons. But I have already brought it, I have 10 kilometers to go back. I'm telling you, how much will it cost? It depends on the cubature. I used to be told 15-17 rubles. There may have been little trash - 6 rubles. I said no question. I get 6 rubles. And they say to me, no, you go there, they write out the bill, you go to the bank, you pay, you come to them, they will give a coupon, and you will come to us with this coupon. Such difficulties... Well, here on the spot gave these 6 rubles, issued a ticket. That is, to pass, I need half a day to drive, move, pay, says Mikhail Matus.

Director of UE "Nesvizhskoe housing and communal services" Nikolai Zhibul explained that in Nesvizh there is a landfill of solid household waste:

- When paying a coupon, which today costs 6 rubles 34 kopecks per 1 cubic meter of garbage, it is possible to place garbage on the landfill. Garbage can be removed both independently and using the equipment of our enterprise for an additional payment. Arriving at the landfill, there is a way through the ERIP, pay, provide an electronic receipt to the employee, after which an entry in the journal will be made and the possibility of waste disposal will be provided.

Nikolai Zhibul drew attention to the fact that a person chooses himself, either he rides on Nesvizh for 2-3 hours and pays in cash, receiving a coupon, or on the spot he is given the opportunity to pay using a mobile device.

- To extract the equipment, you need to contact the address: Shymko street, 74, in the Nesvizhsky district in order for the economist to calculate the mileage, and, accordingly, further provision of equipment in the presence of a citizen's application. As for the agro-town Onoshka, one additional flight of garbage collection costs about 150 rubles. If we sum up: buying a plot in rural areas, we repeat, in rural areas, according to the Code of Architectural, Urban Planning and Construction Activities, a simplified procedure operates. And if you decide to demolish the house, there are two ways. The first is to apply to the district executive committee, recognize the house unsuitable for living and apply for its demolition. The procedure is completely free. The second option is to demolish the house yourself, build a new one at will and at the very end contact BRTI to get a technical passport. Once again, in rural areas, a building permit, the development of a house project is not required. It is only necessary to have rights to the land. Time passes and the legislation changes. And to clarify and communicate innovations, there is power on the ground. As for Tiktok, the conclusions are premature. Would the situation be resolved without him? Yes, because sometimes you just need to go to the right address and to the right person. Repeat the program see September 29 at 10:10 — and it will be at 19:30 on the “First information”. Do not miss, your voice will be heard, and it will definitely reach the addressee.