7.14.2016

Homestead Act? Sounds more like Florida to me

NYTimes: Russia Looks to Populate Its Far East. Wimps Need Not Apply.

KAMEN-RYBOLOV, Russia — Standing ankle deep in mud in a swampy grassland more than 4,000 miles from his home, Yuri A. Bugaev surveyed a mosquito-infested wasteland that the Russian government is offering to would-be pioneers under its own modern-day version of the 1862 Homestead Act in the United States.

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