Dmitry Medvedev evaluated non-efficiency of used land at millions of hectares and suggested transferring it to the created housing support fund.
Photo: Alexander Miridonov
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The Stock-Taking of Russia’s Land
Under the RF government’s ruling, the federal bodies of executive power, government’s enterprises and Russia’s Science Academy are banned from agreeing on the deals with the federal land starting from April 4 and till the end of 2008.
The government’s ruling on Ensuring Housing and Other Construction on Federal Land was promulgated past Friday. Under the document, any deals with the federally-owned land, the assets located on it and with attracting investments in it shouldn’t be agreed on with the Federal Property Agency (Rosimushchestvo) till January 1, 2009.
The matter at stake is the land in the city or close to it. The ban extends to allotments located within a radius of 30km from the city of a million residents, 15km from the city of 0.1 million to 1 million residents and 5km from the town with less than 100,000 residents.
The ruling had been elaborated by order of President-Elect Dmitry Medvedev. The stock-taking of federal land is the first move en route to materializing Medvedev’s idea to create the housing support fund. According to the president-elect, up to 1 million moderate-priced individual houses are to be built each year on the fund’s land comprising the not-used allotments of federal ownership.
“The ruling is mostly of political nature. We cannot simply halt activities on all federal land,” said Nadezhda Kosareva, president of the Urban Economy Institute, who is one of the masterminds of the document. In other words, it is the question of the program to take stock of all federal land.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 07, 2008
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