Soviet passports were returned to Pridnestrovians
The President of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, Vadim Krasnoselsky, signed a decree that recognizes a Soviet passport indicating Transnistrian citizenship as valid, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The corresponding document was published on the website of the leader of Transnistria.
Krasnoselsky signed the decree on October 23. The Supreme Council of Transnistria approved the relevant law on October 10.
As noted in the document, the Soviet passport is recognized as valid for internal use. In addition, such an identity card is unlimited and “cannot be confiscated, damaged or destroyed.” If a citizen with a Soviet passport wants to receive a new document, the old one is not confiscated, but cancelled.
The Pridnestrovya News agency reported that the authors of the legislative initiative were two local deputies. In the explanatory note to the bill, they wrote that many Pridnestrovians would like to keep the USSR passport as a souvenir. Previously, according to the legislation of the republic, when a new passport was issued, the Soviet one was confiscated.
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