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A protester wearing a medical mask holds a sign which reads "Quarantine the Rada" as he attends on March 17, 2020 a rally near the Ukrainian parliament building to demand to shut the institution down during the quarantine, which lasts from March 13 to April 3.
Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

On March 17, nearly a hundred protesters came to the building of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to demand parliamentarians to self-quarantine and stop reviewing the controversial land reform law, the law that – if passed in the second reading – will lift the moratorium on farmland sales in Ukraine.

Read more about the Ukrainian land market and moratorium on farmland sales here: How the new agricultural land sales market might look