Putin proposes free land grants to foreign citizens with Russian background!

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (PNN) - September 11, 2017 - Russian President Vladimir Putin 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,” 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.