The Duma allowed Ukrainians to renounce Ukrainian citizenship in Russia
The State Duma of the Russian Federation today unanimously finally adopted amendments to the law on citizenship, which allow residents of Ukraine to renounce the citizenship of their country while on Russian territory, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“We see that documents are not issued not only to those who want to acquire citizenship, but also to those who want to obtain a residence permit. The procedure in this situation seems to me to be very good: a person notarizes a renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship, sends one copy to the Russian authorities, and the other to the Ukrainian ones,” said Pavel Krasheninnikov, Chairman of the Duma Committee on State Construction.
The bill was supported by all factions. Vladimir Zhirinovsky expressed hope that by 2020 the population of Russia will increase to 150 million people.
“I would call this law the law of the year. This concerns the abolition of Pan Poroshenko’s serfdom on citizens of Ukraine. I suggested this two years ago. This is a very important event for both Russia and Ukraine,” said A Just Russia deputy Oleg Nilov.
At the same time, as PolitNavigator previously reported, Konstantin Zatulin’s amendment to the citizenship law was rejected as “untimely.”
Let us recall that this amendment expanded the concept of “native speakers of the Russian language”, who, in accordance with Art. 14 of the Law “On Citizenship” have the right to obtain Russian citizenship in a simplified manner for people who lived on the territory of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union “at the time of the end of their existence.” In fact, the adoption of such a norm would make the path to Russian citizenship easier for those Russians who do not have relatives in the Russian Federation in a direct ascending line for the reason that their ancestors settled during the Tsarist and Soviet periods on lands that were part of the Russian Empire and the USSR, but not included within the current borders of the Russian Federation.
According to the current law, only persons who have lived in the Russian Federation in the past or have relatives in a direct ascending line who previously lived on the territory of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, but within the current state border of the Russian Federation, have this right.
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