MOSCOW, February 10 (RAPSI) – The State Duma has passed in the third reading a bill removing time limit for free privatization of housing for all Russian citizens.

According to current legislation, privatization of housing was to end on March 1, 2017.

On January 27, the State Duma adopted the bill in the first reading. The draft law proposed to extend privatization time limit up to 2020 for certain groups of citizens: orphaned children, inhabitants of Crimea and people who are to be resettled from unstable housing.

On February 8, the lower house of parliament passed the bill in the second reading, now including amendments making privatization perpetual for all citizens.