Russia offers free land to all citizens willing to move to the Far East

Washington Post 9 hours ago 
Call it the Muscovite version of "manifest destiny." On Monday, President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that offers every Russian citizen a tract of land in their country's remote Far East. "All citizens will be entitled to apply for up to hectare of land in the Kamchatka, Primorye, Khabarovsk, Amur, Magadan and Sakhalin regions, the republic of Sakha, or the Jewish and Chukotka autonomous districts," the Moscow Times reports. The move is part of Moscow's desire to leverage the unexploited potential of a region that remains a kind of "Wild West" — a realm rich in natural resources but whose residents hail from scattered indigenous tribes, the descendants of political exiles and other forgotten schemes of the Soviet Union. About 7.4 million Russians populate the entire Russian Far East. ...

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