PROTECTING OF PROPERTY RIGHTS OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS

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The beginning of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine and its actual consequences in 2014-2015 forced hundreds of thousands of residents of the temporarily annexed and occupied territories to leave their place of residence. The need for proper provision and protection of their rights - taking into account the situation in which they found themselves - led to the introduction of the category “internally displaced person” into the system of Ukrainian legislation, which expresses the peculiarities of the position of these persons and their participation in legal relations, including in property`s relations. The development of this interdisciplinary legal sub-institute has an impact on the theoretical understanding of the forms of protection of property rights of individuals. The need for a thorough study of the changes brought by the amendments to the legislation and, especially, a full scale military invasion in 2022 determine the relevance of this article. The purpose of the article is to study the novelties of Ukrainian legislation on the protection of the property rights of internally displaced persons and their impact on the understanding of jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional forms, as well as ways of protecting the property rights of internally displaced persons. Based on the research materials, it was determined that the legislation proposed special measures to protect the property rights of IDPs (temporary free residence, acquisition of the right to a plot of land from state-owned lands, obtaining a real estate loan on preferential terms and others) can be considered as ways of protecting the property rights of IDPs in their relationship with each other and in connection with other rights of these persons. The development of the theory of forms and methods of protection of civil rights takes place mainly in special methods of protection of property rights (of jurisdictional form), which consist of: 1) in measures to protect movable property; 2) in the provision of benefits and compensations for IDPs in connection with the loss of the ability to use and dispose of their property; 3) in creating exceptions from legal regimes that take into account the specifics of the actual situation of IDPs; 4) in the provision of special powers of authorities aimed at protecting the property rights of IDPs.