Providing of Land in the Far East and the Arctic: Problems and Prospects of Legal Regulation

Abstract

Providing citizens with land plots in the Far East and the Arctic has become one of the mechanisms for the socio-economic development of territories. An analysis of the experience of implementing this mechanism revealed a number of problems that require not only the improvement of the management system and the information system, but also the improvement of legal regulation. The author analyzes several groups of problems related to the legal support for the implementation of the Far East Hectare program and the prospects for the Arctic Hectare program. Three groups of problems are conditionally identified: 1) related to the activities of the citizens themselves, 2) to the activities of authorities and administration, 3) to the activities of automated systems. The main directions of improving the legal regulation of the provision of land plots owned by state or municipal property and located in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation to citizens are considered, changes are proposed to specific regulatory legal documents that directly and indirectly relate to programs for the provision of land plots in the Far East and the Arctic. The article contains analytical materials of scientific and practical discussions and parliamentary hearings held by the Committee for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.