TY - JOUR TI - Changes in the New Land Law (Review of the Provisions of the Federal Law of June 23 2014 No 171-FZOn Making Alterations to Russian Federation Land Code and OtherRussian Federation Legislative Acts) T2 - IS - KW - real estate KW - arranging land plots KW - allocation of land plots KW - The Federal Law of June 23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to the Russian Federation Land Code and other Russian Federation Legislative Acts, the Russian Federation Land Code KW - The Federal Law of June 23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to the Russian Federation Land Code and other Russian Federation Legislative Acts, KW - construction AB - The article deals with the review of the Federal Law of June 23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterationsto the Russian Federation Land Code and other Russian Federation Legislative Acts, which isto be enacted March 1, 2015. The authors have carried out a detailed analysis of significant changesin the Russian Federation Land Code, the Russian Federation Civil Code and other legislative acts.These changes target a number of tasks set by the Russian Federation President to harmonize theLand Code with the Russian Federation Civil Code and the legislation on urban development, increasethe transparency of the procedures as to land relations, exclude collisions between federal laws andclauses causing corruption. The authors have focused on the new order of arranging and providing landplots which are in state or municipal ownership, new institutions of land legislation and transitional rulesprovided by the Federal Law of June 23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to the Russian FederationLand Code and other Russian Federation Legislative Acts, stress legal features of norms pivotalto arrange enforcing and court practice. The authors express the opinion on the consequences of thealterations both for public authorities, legal entities and natural persons, as the land resources will beeasier to get into possession for the country’s population including benefit-entitled citizens and investors.The paper also justifies the causes for the key alterations, studies case practice showing somecontroversial issues which the new legislative norms may facilitate. The authors specify norms and thelaws of the Russian Federation subjects which may be adopted to implement the Federal Law of June23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to the Russian Federation Land Code and other RussianFederation Legislative Acts. AU - Aleksey Butovetskiy AU - Elena Kovaleva UR - https://law-journal.hse.ru/en/2014--3/135029359.html PY - 2014 SP - 55-85 VL -