It has been written a lot about land moratorium in Ukraine. Our
colleagues published professional articles as recently as last
year, arguing that the moratorium was an unjustified obstacle in
exercising property right to land. It
stimulates the development of the black market and
has been actually recognized to be illegal by the European
Court of Human Rights.
However, despite numerous arguments proving that the land
moratorium is harmful, a significant part of citizens express the
position that its cancellation is premature. This was our
inspiration for comparing the negative scenarios of opponents of
the free land market with the actual consequences of the
moratorium.
When writing this article, we tried to answer the question why
Ukrainians had believed that the restrictions on the free market
could meet their interests. To find out the grounds for the beliefs
and fears of our compatriots, let's deepen into the history of
the introduction of the land moratorium
