The former USSR countries started to implement a land reform program and reform the agricultural sector in the transition period at the beginning of the 1990s. But in spite of a common Soviet period legacy, different countries of the region have chosen different routes to agrarian reform. The aggregated result of this is the appearance of clear-cut boundaries between the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries.

The differences in land reform strategies became apparent in several dimensions, all of them linked with resource privatization and reformin…