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  2. Russian citizenship law - Wikipedia

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    Russian citizenship law details the conditions by which a person holds citizenship of Russia.The primary law governing citizenship requirements is the federal law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation" (Russian: О гражданстве Российской Федерации, O grazhdanstve Rossiyskoy Federacii), which came into force on 1 July 2002.

  3. Immigration to Russia - Wikipedia

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    Immigration to Russia involves foreign citizens (or people without any citizenship) seeking permanent residence in the territory of the Russian Federation.Historically, Russian empire was one of the World's leading destination for immigrants starting with the reign of Peter I in ca. 1700, and especially after the ascension of Catherine II to the Russian throne in 1762, until the October ...

  4. Passportization - Wikipedia

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    Passportization is defined as the mass conferral of citizenship to the population of a particular foreign territory by distributing passports, generally within a relatively short period. [1][2][3] This policy has primarily been used by Russian authorities who have provided easy access for persons, usually holders of former Soviet passports, to ...

  5. Edward Snowden asylum in Russia - Wikipedia

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    He was granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year. On August 7, 2014, six days after Snowden's one-year temporary asylum expired, his Russian lawyer announced that Snowden had received a three-year residency permit. It allowed him to travel freely within Russia and to go abroad for up to three months. In October 2020, after Snowden applied ...

  6. Abkhazian passport - Wikipedia

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    Abkhazian citizenship. The Abkhazian passport (Abkhaz: Аҧсны атәылауаҩшәҟәы, romanized: Apsny ata̋ylauaòša̋k̄a̋y; Russian: Абха́зский па́спорт, romanized: Abkhazskiy pasport) is issued to citizens of the Republic of Abkhazia for the purpose of international travel and for the purpose of legal ...

  7. 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The amendments of 2020, which were proposed in January 2020, are the second substantial amendments to the Constitution of Russia of 1993. To introduce these amendments, Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, held a national vote. They were approved on 1 July by a popular vote.

  8. Constitution of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia 's constitution came into force on 25 December 1993, at the moment of its official publication, and abolished the Soviet system of government. The current Constitution is the second most long-lived in the history of Russia, behind the Constitution of 1936. In miniature book version.

  9. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    By law, foreign persons who adopt Russian citizenship are allowed to have no patronymic. [9] Some adopt non-Slavonic patronymics as well. For example, the Russian politician Irina Hakamada's patronym is Муцуовна (Mutsuovna) because her Japanese father's given name was Mutsuo. The ethnicity of origin generally remains recognizable in ...