Reforms in Russian land relations: theoretical and law enforcement issues
Abstract
The reform of land relations has been a crucial issue in Russia for centuries. Today, Russian legislators are faced with such problems as ensuring rational use and effective protection of agricultural land, conducting land surveys, introducing land plots into civil circulation, conserving natural resources, and regulating state and municipal land acquisition mechanisms. After 2014, the first steps in dealing with these issues were taken through the consistent adoption of federal laws that introduced significant changes to the Russian Federation Land Code. More new laws followed, ushering in what is considered to be a new stage in the development of land relations.
The aim of this article is to analyze the adopted legal norms in the field of land relations, and to evaluate the effectiveness of their application. The methodologies employed in the study were general scientific, private, and special methods of inquiry. The general scientific dialectical method made it possible to explore the current state of Russian legislation regulating various aspects of land relations, to identify the essence of the modern land reform, to consider various approaches to the study of this issue, and to demonstrate the sequence and consistency of changes in current Russian Federation land legislation. Formal logic was applied to analyze the reforms of particular land legislation institutions at the present stage, to consider the content of specific legal norms, and to identify their defects. Comparative and formal legal methods were used to establish the correlation of various legal norms. A comparative analysis of judicial practice was performed in some cases to explore and summarize the results of law enforcement activities. This allowed the authors to draw relevant conclusions aimed at improving Russian legislation that regulates various aspects of land relations. The research goal was achieved by using a wide range of methods applied in their combination.
The relevance of the article is connected with the fact that when Russian land legislation is reformed, but there are no precedents of applying these amendments, it has a negative effect on the social, investment and productive climate of the country. Based on the research findings, the authors concluded that the adopted innovations in the field of land relations require additional interpretation.
To ensure stability and consistency in reforming land relations, it is necessary to create a “Strategy for the development of land legislation”, which would provide minimal protection from rash changes in land legislation.
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