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Russian Lawmakers Expand Grounds for Revoking Naturalized Citizenship
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The deputies of the State Duma immediately adopted amendments in the second and third readings, which broaden the grounds for depriving the acquired...
Russian lawmakers expand grounds for revoking naturalized citizenship
The Russian State Duma has approved the third and final reading of a law that expands the list of grounds for revoking Russian citizenship acquired through naturalization, Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced on Thursday. Previously, the law allowed for the revocation of naturalized citizenship based on 64 articles of the Criminal Code. The new legislation adds 17 more offenses to that list, including: Murder;Indecent acts involving a person bet…
A month ago, Crimean was first deprived of Russia's passport for political reasons.
The State has prohibited the deprivation of citizenship of the inhabitants of the annexed Crimea and the occupied territories of Ukraine and has amended the Act adopted on 17 July to expand the grounds for the deprivation of acquired Russian citizenship for a number of crimes, and the President of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, has reported that the list is now supplemented by articles such as murder, debauchery of persons under the age of …
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