Putin Proposes Land for Large Families

Putin playing badminton Saturday with President Dmitry Medvedev. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed allotting free land to rural families with at least three children. A land reform scheduled to start July 1 also envisages the withdrawal from owners of farmland left uncultivated for at least three years, Putin said Friday at a rural congress in town of Atyemar, in the Mordovia republic of the Volga Federal District. […]