Topic: Putin proposes free land gifts to foreign citizens with Rus
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Thu 09/07/17 08:32 AM





RT.com
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 08:55 UTC


The Russian president has proposed expanding a state program of free land handover to foreign citizens with ancestors born on Russian territory, noting that successful candidates should have a desire to work and create strong families.

"It is necessary to expand the opportunities presented by this program to our compatriots who arrive in the Far East from foreign countries," Vladimir Putin said as he opened the session of the State Council Presidium in Vladivostok on Wednesday.

"Compatriots living abroad" is an expression used by the Russian mass media to describe people of Russian culture and - usually - ethnicity, many of whom stayed in the ex-Soviet republics after the USSR collapsed in 1992. Russian law allows for a simplified naturalization and some other benefits for this group of people, which includes descendants of those born within the present-day borders of Russia.

Putin also emphasized that those who arrive from abroad to settle in Russia usually come with a desire to work and create strong families, which made them good candidates for getting free land plots and being entitled to additional support from the state.

The president also urged regional authorities in the Russian Far East to analyze the mistakes committed at the primary stages of implementation of the handout program and make all necessary adjustments to facilitate the process.

"The government and regional authorities need to render financial help to them [settlers who participated in the free land handover program], help them to create regional infrastructure. I also propose to give larger plots of land to those who are successfully working and have already registered the one-hectare plots as their property," Putin told the State Council members.

In May 2016 Russia introduced a law introducing the free handover of land in the Far Eastern regions to those who want to build homes or start businesses in agriculture or tourism. The sponsors of the bill have said that they hope to attract more people to the Far East Federal District, to slow or stop the outward migration of locals and to boost the socio-economic development of the territory.

The actual start of the program fell on February 1, 2017.


Over 48,000 Russians claim free land in Far East


The law provides for the free handover of 1 hectare (about 2.5 acres) of land to anyone who applies for the program. However, foreign citizens will only be allowed to utilize the land, not own it outright. Registration of full property rights is only possible after the naturalization of potential owners. The land can be used for any lawful purpose, though the new owners cannot rent, sell, or give it away for five years, after which they can obtain full property rights under condition that they manage to develop the land plot in some way.

In early 2017 the governor of the Far Eastern region of Kamchatka, Vladimir Ilyukhin, told reporters that over 48,000 people had submitted applications for taking part in the program. "The geography is wide: Moscow, Moscow Region, Lipetsk region, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, practically all of central Russia wants land in Kamchatka. It makes me happy. Those who want land here will get it," he said.

About 28 percent of Russians interested in the program say they want to use the land to build a home. About 17 percent want to use the land for agriculture or raising cattle. Another seven percent say they will use the land to build hotels and develop local tourism.

According to the official land register, Russia currently has about 198 million hectares of agricultural land, of which at least 28 million is state-owned and unused.

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Thu 09/07/17 08:39 AM
Putin's Homestead-Act of 2017?
bigsmile

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Thu 09/07/17 08:50 AM

Putin's Homestead-Act of 2017?
bigsmile


soon to be known as "Putin The Great"...laugh laugh

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Thu 09/07/17 09:12 AM
I assume they need documentation that they are of Russian ancestry?

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Thu 09/07/17 09:27 AM

I assume they need documentation that they are of Russian ancestry?
if Adam & Eve is correct, we are all related anyway...

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Thu 09/07/17 09:38 AM


I assume they need documentation that they are of Russian ancestry?
if Adam & Eve is correct, we are all related anyway...


laugh ooooo point for Moe

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Thu 09/07/17 11:01 AM


I assume they need documentation that they are of Russian ancestry?
if Adam & Eve is correct, we are all related anyway...

Technically, even without Adam & Eve, we may all be related and of African descent.

Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/almost-all-living-people-outside-africa-trace-back-single-migration-more-50000-years

Yet the case isn’t closed. One study argues that an earlier wave of modern humans contributed traces to the genomes of living people from Papua New Guinea. And perhaps both sides are right, says archaeologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, a co-author on that paper who has long argued for an early expansion out of Africa. “We’re converging on a model where later dispersals swamped the earlier ones,” he says.

a team led by Mait Metspalu of the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, makes a different claim. Analyzing 379 new genomes from 125 populations worldwide, the group concludes that at least 2% of the genomes of people from Papua New Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago. Their paper proposes that Homo sapiens left Africa in at least two waves.

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Thu 09/07/17 12:04 PM



I assume they need documentation that they are of Russian ancestry?
if Adam & Eve is correct, we are all related anyway...

Technically, even without Adam & Eve, we may all be related and of African descent.

Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/almost-all-living-people-outside-africa-trace-back-single-migration-more-50000-years

Yet the case isn’t closed. One study argues that an earlier wave of modern humans contributed traces to the genomes of living people from Papua New Guinea. And perhaps both sides are right, says archaeologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, a co-author on that paper who has long argued for an early expansion out of Africa. “We’re converging on a model where later dispersals swamped the earlier ones,” he says.

a team led by Mait Metspalu of the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, makes a different claim. Analyzing 379 new genomes from 125 populations worldwide, the group concludes that at least 2% of the genomes of people from Papua New Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago. Their paper proposes that Homo sapiens left Africa in at least two waves.

I think there's a good chance humans could have evolved in china...

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Thu 09/07/17 12:29 PM





I assume they need documentation that they are of Russian ancestry?
if Adam & Eve is correct, we are all related anyway...

Technically, even without Adam & Eve, we may all be related and of African descent.

Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/almost-all-living-people-outside-africa-trace-back-single-migration-more-50000-years

Yet the case isn’t closed. One study argues that an earlier wave of modern humans contributed traces to the genomes of living people from Papua New Guinea. And perhaps both sides are right, says archaeologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, a co-author on that paper who has long argued for an early expansion out of Africa. “We’re converging on a model where later dispersals swamped the earlier ones,” he says.

a team led by Mait Metspalu of the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, makes a different claim. Analyzing 379 new genomes from 125 populations worldwide, the group concludes that at least 2% of the genomes of people from Papua New Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago. Their paper proposes that Homo sapiens left Africa in at least two waves.

I think there's a good chance humans could have evolved in china...
it is the Middle East actually :wink:
that's the more likely theoru, since the oldest bones are found in africa...

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Thu 09/07/17 01:02 PM
What, so he can take it back a la Crimean Peninsula? whoa

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Thu 09/07/17 01:05 PM
Checks ancestry

A little farm with a few Russian women kicking about, where do I sign.

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Thu 09/07/17 01:09 PM
Maybe he will name it "Gulagistan".

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Thu 09/07/17 01:32 PM

Checks ancestry

A little farm with a few Russian women kicking about, where do I sign.


laugh

Northern Siberia grows the best damn potatoes on earth Joe scared

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Thu 09/07/17 01:49 PM


Checks ancestry

A little farm with a few Russian women kicking about, where do I sign.


laugh

Northern Siberia grows the best damn potatoes on earth Joe scared
you canuks should love it there..