“New Russians”: why does the Russian Federation simplify obtaining a passport for Ukrainians and Belarusians

March 8 2020 43

In our country, a real migration reform begins. Authorities are consistently simplifying the process of obtaining a Russian passport for citizens of Ukraine and Belarus. It is likely that they will be followed by Kazakhstan, Moldova and non-CIS countries, for example, Germany.

Why did the Kremlin need “new Russians”, and what are the pros and cons of changes in migration legislation?

So, it intends to simplify the new reform.

At first, for the natives of Ukraine and Belarus, the interview will be canceled, the purpose of which is to check the knowledge of the applicant for the Russian language. In general, this is a very reasonable decision, since for the vast majority of the population of these countries, the Russian language is native and is used by them in everyday life.

Secondly, a bill is being prepared that proposes the abolition of the requirement to live 5 years in our country in order to qualify for Russian citizenship. Probably, the provision requiring confirming the level of material well-being will be excluded. Under current law, you must first live 5 years on the basis of a residence permit, and a passport with a double-headed eagle can be obtained in the general manner after 7-9 years from the start of the procedure.

Thirdly, to 1 year from the previous 3 years, the term for granting citizenship to a spouse of a Russian citizen will be reduced.

Fourthly, The Ministry of Labor has increased the list of professions giving the right to citizenship in a simplified manner, among them: doctors, engineers, welders, agronomists, installers and other valuable specialists.

Fifthly, under the new rules, it will not be required to renounce previous citizenship. In other words, the “second citizenship” program is actively developing in Russia, not to be confused with a double one. This means that citizens of Belarus and Ukraine will be able to keep their passports, while receiving Russian.

What can this very radical migration reform testify to?

The first thing that comes to mind is an attempt to plug a “demographic hole” at the expense of migrants from the CIS countries. Despite the birth support program, the population decline in our country exceeds it. There is a negative outlook by the UN, according to which by 2050 there will be only 132 million Russians. The flow of residents of Ukraine and Belarus to Russia is able to solve this problem. There are estimates that at the expense of Ukrainians and Belarusians you can get an additional 5 to 10 million inhabitants.

Second: at the expense of migrants, the authorities are trying to solve the shortage of skilled workers. Perhaps this should be considered a recognition that we have been “reformed” with education.

Third: the distribution of Russian passports without requiring a renunciation of the first citizenship can be considered an attempt to policy "Soft power" in the near abroad. Despite the most serious conflict between Moscow and Kiev, millions of Russian people still live in Ukraine who stand for peace and mutually beneficial cooperation with Russia. Their acquisition of Russian citizenship can be considered a serious tool of the Kremlin’s foreign policy in Nezalezhnaya. The same can be said about Belarus, relations with which we have recently begun to deteriorate. This country is historically clearly divided into Western and Eastern parts. Russia does not hurt to have its "soft power" in Belarus.

However, it should be mentioned that this coin has a downside. Due to the simplification of the procedure, many natives of Ukraine and Belarus, who do not experience special loyalty to our country, will also be able to obtain a double-headed eagle passport.

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Sapsan136

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8 March 2020 11: 26

People with a second citizenship of the Russian Federation are not needed, as they are unreliable and in the event of an international conflict can cause the Russian Federation exceptional harm.
1. Panting
  
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  8 March 2020 11: 48
  
  Some indigenous citizens of Russia are sometimes more unreliable than former citizens of the USSR (some deputies, artists, senior officials, Chubais do not want to remember, even Kudrin in addition, well, and other husks).
  1. Sapsan136
    
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    8 March 2020 18: 33
    
    We are not talking about some, but about the majority, and the majority of visitors are ethnic crime and patriots of foreign states who threaten Russia with terrorist attacks in case of war with their Ukraine ... I'm not talking about terrorism .. here all the threads go to those who studied in Saudi madrassas, or to those whom students studied there in the Russian Federation after arriving from abroad ... the FSB regularly catches either Georgians or Ukrainians for espionage against the Russian Federation ... I'm not talking about a gang from Uzbekistan that killed in Moscow region has more than 100 people (drivers and their passengers. They killed and robbed, in mostly truckers, but they didn’t disdain cars too. Among those killed were the family of an officer of the Russian Federation with children.) Do you know many local maniacs who killed 100 people or more? Are you many among the local, Chukchi, for example, you know the FSB caught for espionage against the Russian Federation?
    1. Nick
      
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      8 March 2020 19: 02
      
      Quote: Sapsan136
      We are not talking about some, but about the majority, and the majority of visitors are ethnic crime and patriots of foreign states who threaten Russia with terrorist attacks in case of war with their Ukraine ..
      
      You have mixed everything in a bunch now. Ukrainians and Belarusians are ethnically Russian people for the most part, both in mentality and genotype. And patriots of foreign states are unlikely to receive Russian citizenship if they are patriots, as they will be obliged to swear allegiance to Russia.
      1. Sapsan136
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 06
        
        Russian people do not fight against Russia, and this, with black and white and red and white flags, Russians and Russian culture, in the best case for the Russian Federation, like a goat button accordion, and in the worst they are ready to fight against Russia, Russian and Russian culture, that Ukraine already doing in the Donbass, and the Republic of Belarus, so far, at rallies and statements by Lukashenko, who has already called Russia an occupier, imposing his wars on the Republic of Belarus ... They swear allegiance to the Russian army, this does not prevent the FSB from catching them for espionage against the Russian Federation in favor Georgia and Ukraine ... Their Mazepas always swear, but their oaths are not expensive ...
        
        Nick
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 10
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        Russian people do not fight against Russia, and this, with black and white and red and white flags, Russians and Russian culture, in the best case for the Russian Federation, like a goat button accordion, and in the worst they are ready to fight against the Russian Federation, Russians and Russian culture
        
        I’m talking about the Russian majority living in the territories of the former Ukraine, and you are writing about a handful of traitorous renegades. Traitors are found in any nation.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 16
        
        Yes, there is already no Russian majority there, partly it left for Russia back in the 90s, because of the persecution of Russians in the countries of the former Soviet Union, partly assimilated, or was destroyed on a national basis ... If there were a Russian majority, there wouldn’t be would there Bandera power! Yeah, but I just didn’t hear that the FSB would catch indigenous people of the Russian Federation (Yakuts, Russians and others) for espionage against the Russian Federation, terrorist attacks, or banditry with the killings of more than 100 people ... But there’s no such thing ... But Ukrainians for training only recently the FSB has caught at least a dozen terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation ...
        
        Nick
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 17
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        Yeah, but I just didn’t hear that the FSB would catch indigenous people of the Russian Federation (Yakuts, Russians and others) for espionage against the Russian Federation, terrorist attacks, or banditry with the killings of more than 100 people ... But there’s no such thing ... But Ukrainians for training only recently the FSB has caught at least a dozen terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation ...
        
        And how many of them received Russian citizenship?
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 19
        
        Alas, not a few, and the beast that blew up the metro in St. Petersburg also managed to obtain Russian citizenship, which is not worth it like this, hand out left and right .. For espionage against the Russian Federation the FSB even caught officers of the Russian army, from among ethnic Georgians and Ukrainians, and you say - citizenship ...
        
        Nick
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 27
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        For espionage against the Russian Federation, the FSB even caught officers of the Russian army, from among ethnic Georgians and Ukrainians, and you say - citizenship
        
        I think that there are traitors among the native Russians too. This is not a reason to refuse Russian citizens living outside of Russia in Russian citizenship.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 31
        
        You can think as much as you like, but the facts are stubborn things, and they are not in favor of visitors, especially considering the fact that all countries of the former USSR built their independence on Russophobia ... But no one refused the Russians before, only they come to The Russian Federation is becoming smaller and smaller, since Russians in the countries of the former Soviet Union are not bottomless, and x is limited and almost exhausted ...
        
        Nick
        
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        8 March 2020 19: 49
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        You can think as much as you like, but the facts are stubborn
        
        That's it! Russian Vlasov gathered an entire Russian liberation army, notice, not Ukrainian, not Belarusian, under the banners of Hitler. So what do we now - to evict all Russians from Russia? Nonsense!
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        But no one refused the Russians before, only they are arriving in the Russian Federation less and less, since the Russians in the countries of the former Union are not bottomless, their supply is limited and almost exhausted ...
        
        You are mistaken. There were only 25 million Russians left outside Russia in the CIS, not to mention the far abroad. Most have not returned yet.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        8 March 2020 20: 10
        
        You don’t need to start this barrel organ, the ROA lists are published and it’s no secret that the ROA was formed not from Russians, but from Russophobia-infected Soviet nationals such as Shkuro, Naumenko, von Lampe, Exceptari and the like.
        
        Nick
        
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        8 March 2020 20: 29
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        You don’t need to have this barrel organ, the ROA lists are published and it’s no secret that the ROA was formed not from Russians, but from Russophobia-infected Soviet nationals such as Shkuro, Naumenko, von Lampe, Exceptari and the like
        
        I did not argue that only the Russians served in the ROA, but the backbone of the army, about 55 (!) Was precisely the Russians. There were about half of them, the second half were people of non-Russian nationality, but all came from the USSR.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        8 March 2020 21: 02
        
        The basis of the ROA was made by the Soviet national authorities and this is a universally recognized documentary fact. It was Hitler who made his bet on patients with Russophobia of self-activists. Which of the Vlasovites, in your opinion, is Russian: Klych-Gerey, Arzeso, Shtrik-Shtrikfeldt, Shteifon, Voskoboinik ?! Do not tell anyone here ... No matter how I call myself a nonsense like Zakutnye, Kominskaya and similar Hitler’s infirmities to Russians, who supposedly have the right to dispose in Russia, they are not Russians and in Russia they have only the right to be executed for their crimes against Russia and Russian people!
        
        Nick
        
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        8 March 2020 22: 21
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        The basis of the ROA was made by the Soviet national authorities and this is a universally recognized documentary fact.
        
        Provide document number, storage address, reference. And do not hide behind general phrases such as "generally recognized documentary fact."
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        8 March 2020 22: 41
        
        I have listed almost the entire highest command of the ROA, is this not enough for you? I recognize Russophobia and Ukrainians ... So who in ROA do you consider Russian? Meleshkevich, Reispler, Becker, White, Kokunko, or won Pavvnits ?! I met one of yours here, so he claimed that Skuro was supposedly Russian ... If Skuro is Russian, then I am Indian ... and you are a Negro ...
        
        Nick
        
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        9 March 2020 01: 29
        
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        I have listed almost the entire highest command of the ROA, is this not enough for you?
        
        They forgot the main thing, Vlasov.
        And about the reference to the document, which confirms your statements about the absence of Russians in the ROA, how?
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        9 March 2020 22: 04
        
        Judging by Vlasov’s appearance and his behavior, he only had a Russian surname, which does not make him Russian! Such as Vlasov, with Russian surnames and non-Russian appearance, were, and that minority, there were no Russians! And (references) look at Wikipedia and in the archive of the armed forces! Even Denikin refused to serve in the ROA!
        
        Nick
        
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        10 March 2020 00: 59
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        Judging by Vlasov’s appearance and his behavior, he only had a Russian surname, which does not make him Russian! Such as Vlasov, with Russian surnames and non-Russian appearance, were, and that minority, there were no Russians! And (references) look at Wikipedia and in the archive of the armed forces! Even Denikin refused to serve in the ROA!
        
        But in essence there is no answer. Now you decide who to consider Russian and who not, in appearance and your personal intuition. Oh well. Then, in your opinion, both Pushkin and Lermontov are not Russian, and Tchaikovsky, and Gogol, and Dal, and the dynasties of Russian tsars, it turns out, are also not Russian in your opinion.
        You are probably the only Russian in Russia, then I have nothing more to discuss with you.
        
        Don36
        
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        10 March 2020 21: 47
        
        But essentially, the next attempt by the Soviet national leader to wash the sins of his fellow tribesmen failed. The Soviet national minorities formed the basis of the ROA, and even such units as the SS division Nakhtigal Galichina, Shahenshaht SS battalion, SS battalion Tamara and the like gangs consisted entirely of russophobic self-gunners. Well, it’s not your Mazepa and his lawyers to be considered Russian and not geeks like Bandera Okopov, who was killed in Tskhinvali, in battles against the Russian army, under the flag of UNA-UNSO
        
        Nick
        
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        10 March 2020 21: 51
        
        Quote: Don36
        But essentially, the next attempt by the Soviet national leader to wash the sins of his fellow tribesmen failed.
        
        What are you talking about now?
        
        Quote: Don36
        Soviet nationalities formed the basis of the ROA
        
        Allegation. The facts speak differently.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        11 March 2020 14: 10
        
        The facts have been brought to you, but you do not like them and you do not want to recognize them, just as your Ukraine does not want to admit that it did not even stand near Crimea ...
        
        Nick
        
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        11 March 2020 19: 02
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        The facts have been brought to you, but you do not like them and you do not want to recognize them.
        
        I brought you the fact that the ROA was almost 50% ethnic Russians, who were already 55 thousand people in the ROA, but you do not recognize this fact. It turns out that you do not like the facts and you do not recognize them. And the fact that immigrants from the USSR and other nationalities served in the ROA, I do not deny. Just the Russian ethnic group in the ROA was the largest. And Ukrainians, and Armenians, and Belarusians, and Georgians, in the ROA was numerically much less than Russian.
        
        Nick
        
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        11 March 2020 19: 11
        
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        ... you don’t want, just as your Ukraine does not want to admit that she didn’t even stand near Crimea ...
        
        Unfortunately, Ukraine is not mine and not yours now. Ukraine is a temporarily occupied territory, in fact a US protectorate.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        12 March 2020 11: 18
        
        It is not necessary to consider Russian as foreigners who call themselves Russian for political reasons and are fighting against Russia - YOU have already written about this! The difference is that you consider all these patients with Russophobia of the Soviet national minorities Russians, only on the basis of their surname, or their words, and I have a different opinion. The Volga Germans who fought in Hitler’s ROA and the like are not Russian! The Okopovs who fought in UNA-UNSO against the Russian Federation in Ossetia are not Russian, they are Ukrainians with Russophobia, with Russian surnames ... I also met Russians, with Ukrainian surnames, for whom there is one Motherland - Russia, and they are ready to fight for it even against Ukraine even against Satan! Alas, you are not the last and there are many of you here ...
        
        Nick
        
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        19 March 2020 02: 55
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        It is not necessary to consider Russian as foreigners who call themselves Russian for political reasons and are fighting against Russia - YOU have already written about this!
        
        And I wrote to you that it is not necessary for everyone living in Ukraine to be equated with a handful of Bandera-Nazis.
        
        Quote: Sapsan136
        I met Russians with Ukrainian surnames, for which there is one Motherland - Russia, and they are ready to fight for it even against Ukraine, even against Satan! Alas, you are not the last and there are many of you here ...
        
        Alas, you are not clairvoyant to say that about me.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        20 March 2020 11: 31
        
        I already wrote to you that if in Ukraine the majority were normal, there would not be Bandera power! They all pay taxes on the ATO, paying for the genocide of the Russian people.
        
        Nick
        
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        21 March 2020 13: 39
        
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        if in Ukraine the majority were normal, there would not be Bandera power! They all pay taxes on the ATO, paying for the genocide of the Russian people.
        
        Demagogy of pure water.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        24 March 2020 09: 28
        
        It’s a pure truth that people from the Outskirts and half-breeds don’t like it ... Well, they don’t take offense at the truth, you have always had a lot of Mazepa’s, you have such a nature .. The very idea of Ukrainians is itself anti-Russian ...
        
        Nick
        
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        29 March 2020 17: 44
        
        If this is you to me, then I was born, raised and now live in the Vladimir region. So do not address your nationalistic statements.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        30 March 2020 10: 19
        
        In Soviet times, who was not born here, and now Negroes are born, but that does not make Russia Africa, and they are the indigenous population of the Russian Federation !!! Judging by the number of patriots of foreign states living in the Russian Federation who spy on the military units of the Russian Federation and report on their movement to the embassy of their Ukraine, the Russian Federation is waiting for the purge of enemies of the people and the state!
        
        Two gods cannot be served.
        
        - as Professor Preobrazhensky said ... And articles of the Criminal Code like - High treason - no one canceled in the Russian Federation!
        
        Nick
        
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        30 March 2020 12: 08
        
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        In Soviet times, who was not born here, and now Negroes are born, but that does not make Russia Africa, and they are the indigenous population of the Russian Federation !!!
        
        Do you think the indigenous population is determined?
        Are you rooting yourself? A DNA test was performed, or do you know your genealogy to the seventh generation? How do you define the indigenous population of Russia? On what grounds? The Führer has not told you yet? Share it.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        30 March 2020 13: 20
        
        The indigenous population of the Russian Federation is those who do not have their own national states outside the Russian Federation and yes, I am indigenous, I have no relatives outside the borders of the Russian Federation and the parents are the indigenous population of the Russian Federation !!! I don't need a DNA test, I know my pedigree before Ivan the Terrible, and I managed to get a Soviet passport with the "nationality" column. The nationality is indicated in my Soviet birth certificate, as well as the nationality of my parents ... And who you are - it is immediately obvious, to listen to you like that, so Russia owes everyone and is to blame for everything ... We owe you nothing but a ticket home, to your native farms and auls where you built your independence from Russia on Russophobia !!! And, by the way, you started pogroms on ethnic grounds in Odessa in the 90s, when the Soviet base of missile boats refused to swear allegiance to your Bandera people, you killed several people there even then !!! Look for the Fuhrer in your historical homeland, among Tyagneboks, Poroshenko, Tymoshenko and other animals ... I remember that Tymoshenko called for killing Russians with an atomic bomb !!!
        
        Nick
        
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        30 March 2020 14: 18
        
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        The indigenous people of the Russian Federation are those who do not have their own national states outside the Russian Federation and yet, yes, I’m indigenous, I have relatives outside the borders of the Russian Federation
        
        Well then, all your Russian tsars, in your opinion, come out that they are not Russians, and the nobility is also in large part. Again, the Tatars on the territory of modern Russia even before Ivan the Terrible, by the way, he had a Greek grandmother, they also lived, and they have no other homeland, they, in your opinion, are also Russian. I state: you have porridge in your head. It’s too early to give you the definition of nationality. First you need to learn.
        
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        And who you are is immediately visible
        
        And who, tell me, if you can see so well.
        
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        To listen to you like that, so Russia should and is to blame for everything.
        
        If you listened to me, you would know that I never said anything like this or stated anything. More precisely, I affirm the exact opposite.
        And I would like to ask you if you are really real Russian. Do you know the history of your country? How, for example, was nationality determined in the Russian Empire, the same Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians?
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        30 March 2020 14: 42
        
        I don’t have any porridge in my head, everything is extremely clear. All living in the Russian Federation and gearing to foreign countries to the detriment of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to drive a rotten broomstick from the Russian Federation !!! Mazepa’s are not Russian, it’s rabble formed from invaders of all stripes and their sixes, remember this, and better write it down !!! And those who now go to the Republic of Belarus under the flags of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, also have no relation to Russia, and certainly, Russia is not friends and not Russians !!! The descendants of the Russian admiral Alexander Cruz were Scandinavians, but he did not drag money or territory from Russia to Sweden, just like the Soviet nationals suffering from Russophobia !!! Give you free rein, take away all of Russia! It’s time to call you to order, but you won’t be able to call, so force !! But do not like it - a suitcase, a train station, home !!!
        
        Nick
        
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        30 March 2020 14: 47
        
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        I don’t have any porridge in my head, everything is extremely clear. All living in the Russian Federation and gearing to foreign countries to the detriment of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to drive a rotten broomstick from the Russian Federation !!!
        
        No, here I agree, and - to drive, regardless of nationality. Although under the law this, alas, is impossible.
        
        Sapsan136
        
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        30 March 2020 14: 48
        
        Perhaps laws - they can be adopted and new ones ... By the way, from the same USA for the activity directed against the USA, they kick me in the neck at the expense of time !!!
Monster_Fat

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8 March 2020 12: 21

If we talk about the citizens of Ukraine and Belarus, who fill the "demographic and professional holes", such as this migration reform is called upon, then we can say that they do not need Russian citizenship and nafig. Especially the Ukrainians. Ukrainians are quite satisfied with their citizenship, which allows them to get a simple exit to the EU and the USA to work, why do they need Russian citizenship - the citizenship of a country under constantly increasing sanctions? Well, perhaps, "just in case" - although "just in case" no one will bother with the bureaucracy when obtaining citizenship - Russia is not an EU country or the United States, whose citizenship is "quoted". Secondly, Russia is following the path of explicitly tightening the screws and limiting civil rights and freedoms for citizens, as well as constantly increasing the tax burden on the population, while maintaining a miserable level of wages for the vast majority of the population - and who is interested in the citizenship of "such a country"? It is necessary to get out of it, and not to go into it. Russia is interesting in terms of migration only to residents of auls, with purchased diplomas from all kinds of "churkestans", and the opportunity to have "dual citizenship" - it's just a holiday for this category of migrants - "screwed up" in Russia and quickly dumped it on homeland - figs it out of there you scoop out for punishment. Just yesterday it was reported how several types of "taxi drivers" were piled into their "churkestans" in new cars rented in Russia.
Marciz

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8 March 2020 15: 34

For the demographic pit in response to the cops that roofed drugs in Russia !!!! This means that they should take away pensions and retirement age from the cops who came out at age 45, and let the traitors to the Russian land work up to 65 !!!!!
xilia72

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8 March 2020 19: 41

Quote: Sapsan136
Russian people do not fight against Russia.

Until John III, the Russians fought with the Russians, well, with the coming of the Bolsheviks to power.
xilia72

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8 March 2020 19: 50

In Russia, you need to introduce a minimum wage and pension of at least 700 euros, then the Ukrainians will need it. And using Poland as a springboard, in a year they receive its citizenship, and can work and live wherever they want, without any bureaucratic delays. With equal salaries with Western countries, the Russian Federation is many times more attractive for life.
Nikolay Malyugin

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9 March 2020 07: 38

That is the preservation of their citizenship and will play a major role.