The Government of the Russian Federation shifts responsibility to the President regarding the issue of simplified acquisition of citizenship
The State Duma of the Russian Federation voted today in the first reading for changes to the law on citizenship, providing for the simplification of this procedure, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Zubov explained, the bill specifies the powers of the president to determine the categories of foreign citizens and stateless persons who have the right to be granted Russian citizenship in a simplified manner. “We believe that this norm will...