The State Duma deprived Russian officials of their second citizenship
The State Duma prohibited state and municipal employees from having a second citizenship or residence permit abroad.
Corresponding amendments to more than twenty laws were adopted today at a parliamentary meeting, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
State Duma deputy, member of the United Russia faction Pavel Krasheninnikov, who presented the presidential bill, said that from now on candidates for bureaucratic positions will have to choose between working for the state or a second citizenship.
“People who perform special government functions and powers on duty must be protected from possible negative influence from the outside. For this purpose, additional restrictions are introduced. But they, of course, do not deprive a person of the right to choose to accept these conditions or not to associate himself with government activities,” Krasheninnikov said
Speaking after him, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction, Alexey Kurinny, criticized the changes for the fact that they do not prohibit the ownership of foreign real estate.
“It is real estate today that is the part that holds our elite, and in fact today the fifth column in our country may not be some foreign agents with whom we are heroically trying to fight, not Navalny and his company, but precisely these people, who, having an alternate airfield, having some kind of estate abroad, a hotel, a house, are actually in one way or another dependent on the West.
And it’s not for nothing that a famous American political scientist once said: “We still need to see whose elite it is. You have nuclear weapons, you have the ability to influence, but your elite keeps $500 billion in our banks.” Let me remind you that this was Zbigniew Brzezinski, a famous American political scientist. Today, instead of introducing this additional restriction, for some reason we excluded it,” the communist was indignant.
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