SHAKHRAI SEES REFERENDUM ON LAND OWNERSHIP.

Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Shakhrai has told journalists that a referendum on private ownership of land will take place in March or April of next year. (2) He said that the Communist and Agrarian factions in the Duma had been "chopping away" at a draft law on privatization for almost one year but that it is time to put the issue to the popular vote. The bill is essential to further reforms in Russia, Shakhrai stated. At present, the majority of Russia’s farms have been reorganized but retain some form of collective organization.

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