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Also, the next day will be able to apply for the granting of Russian citizenship in a simplified manner the residents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Ukraine.

the New rules relax the rules against people who are not for us strangers: former compatriots first and foremost. After the collapse of the Soviet Union has still not resolved many of the problems. In the USSR, we were one people, and the boundaries were in the living. Overnight, became foreigners, many thousands of citizens who consider Russia their Homeland, but remained in the territory of the new States.

“because Of the formal manner, a certain extent of influence of human factor and sufficient complexity of bureaucratic procedures, often in practice, people face serious problems, says lawyer Tatyana Karaseva. – Cases when people actually a living on the territory of Russia, often with the family, seek to grant them Russian citizenship, but receive a refusal, solely on the formal, not the substantive grounds or are in “suspended” state, living without a passport and without papers”.

So in General it evaluates the effect of a norm as positive.

“Now entitled to apply for citizenship without complying with the necessary period of residence on the territory of our country, the citizens of Moldova and Ukraine with a valid residence permit in Russia, she says. – Foreigners have graduated from Russian universities, will be eligible for Russian citizenship after a year of work in our country.”

the law, effective tomorrow, have affected individuals without citizenship. They will be able to get legal documents.

According to experts, currently, our country is about 5 thousand persons without citizenship in an irregular legal status.

Among them, a lot of persons in respect of whom the decision on undesirability of stay in Russia, but to deport them to another country is not possible, because they do not have the citizenship of a foreign state. Such people will be issued a temporary identity card of a stateless person.

to Issue a certificate is expected on the basis of the conclusion about identity of a person without citizenship. People will be able to live and work.

be Issued such certificates will be valid for one year, then the document will need to be renewed.