Provisional results of the 2016 All-Russia Census of Agriculture suggest that the view of agricultural land needs to be revised completely. They also suggest that regulatory and supervisory authorities should draw serious conclusions from that

From the largest importer of grain that the country used to be in the Soviet times, Russia has evolved into its net exporter. The potential for increasing grain exports by means of reclaiming abandoned lands is being examined. There are as well opportunities for boosting grain production by...

The converting of farmlands from the category of lands for agricultural purposes is a pressing problem in Russia. The corrupt practice of charge-free entitling of farmland owners with development rights should be replaced with the procedure of their official sale basing on the pre-set and...

When the issues of land privatization are considered from the point of view of the situation existing in agriculture, it becomes evident that the currently practiced approaches to privatization are not properly geared to such factors as the actual state of the objects of privatization or the...

Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and tenure since 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, individual landowners now have legal rights to most agricultural land in the country, and prohibitions on buying and selling of land have been recently removed. The...

In general, land in Russia is in private ownership of millions of private owners. Nevertheless, agricultural land market is not developed, the costs associated with transactions in land are extremely high and the demand for land exists only in some regions. The market is distorted because in...