Russia promises to resume issuing passports in Transnistria
The problem with Transnistrian citizens obtaining Russian citizenship is not political, but “legal and casuistic” in nature and will be resolved. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak announced this today in Tiraspol, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The last time Kozak visited Transnistria was in 2003, when the United States forced the Moldovan authorities to disrupt the signing of a plan he had developed to resolve the Transnistrian crisis. Now young people who were born in the PMR after 1992 cannot obtain Russian citizenship. Let us recall that in 2007, 97% of the participants in the referendum in Transnistria supported the independence of the PMR from Moldova with subsequent reunification with Russia.
“We also discussed the issue of Pridnestrovians obtaining Russian citizenship. It is rather casuistic, legal in nature. We will consider it together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and find an appropriate solution. All people who have a documented right to citizenship should exercise this right. there is a problem in the interpretation or vagueness of the rules that regulate in detail the acceptance of documents, etc.,” the press service of the PMR President quotes Kozak.
The Deputy Prime Minister promised that financial assistance would be provided to Russian citizens in Transnistria and the republic itself.
“A significant number of Russian citizens live here, whom we are obliged to support politically and economically - this is our sacred duty, responsibility to our citizens, and in this sense we need even closer interaction with the authorities of Pridnestrovie,” noted in the introductory part of the discussion Dmitry Kozak.
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