The adventures of the 83- year-old Greek citizen, veteran of the 2nd World War, Akop Mkrtsian, who went to Russia in 1953 as a political refugee, has a happy ending. Akop Mkrtsian recently lost his home due to a conflict with the urban planning policies of Moscow. The Russian state confiscated his house where he was living since 1980. According to the news agency Ria-Novosti, the Housing Committee of Moscow Municipality decided to include Akop Mkrtsian in the housing project of Moscow Municipality for 2011. His house was located in the center of Moscow and was demolished, as it was considered illegal, in 2007. Since then he has been living in a temporary shelter, which was also recently demolished.
Akop Mkrtsian was born in 1929 in Athens. When he turned 15 he became a guerrilla during the Greek Civil War. He has worked as a tourist agent in Moscow and as a secretary of the Greek Refugees Club of USSR.
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