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July 8 2003

President Vladimir Putin has signed the federal law amending and adding to the federal law on trade of agricultural land. This law was approved by the State Duma on June 20, 2003, and by the Federation Council on June 26, 2003.

The federal law makes some clarifications to certain provisions of the federal law on trade of agricultural land, bringing them into line with the requirements of the Land Code, the federal law on farming and other Russian legislation.

The law also regulates the privatisation of land transferred for permanent use to agricultural organisations and improves procedures for the acquisition of parcels of agricultural land.

April 8 2003

President Vladimir Putin met with members of the presidium of the Central Council of national public organisation the Russian Agrarian Movement.

Mr. Putin said that developing the legal foundation regulating land relations is a priority for the state. A lot of changes have already taken place in this area over recent years. The Land Code has come into force, as has the law on trading of agricultural land. Work is in process on a new law on mortgages.

Mr. Putin called on the Russian Agrarian Movement’s activists to help win public opinion over to the idea of a market for land . The president said that cooperation with regional legislators is of particular importance, noting that a black market for land will flourish in Russia so long as the regions do not pass the necessary legislation for putting civilised land relations into place.

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"We have managed to make progress on the complex issue of reforming land relations, a matter that had been at a standstill. I would just like to remind you that for a whole decade this question was a serious economic obstacle on the road to democracy and the market."
Annual Presidential Adress to the Federal Assembly,
May 16, 2003

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