The State Duma again called for simplifying the process of obtaining citizenship for residents of Donbass
The Russian bureaucratic machine is pushing away people from Donbass and Ukraine who want to become citizens of the country.
United Russia deputy Dmitry Belik wrote about this on his Facebook page, commenting on his speech on this issue in the State Duma, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Once again, I raised the topic of obtaining citizenship by our compatriots, the people who form the Russian world. The question did not appear out of thin air; there are a lot of appeals addressed to me in which citizens of Ukraine complain about the bureaucratic machine, which does not allow them to obtain Russian citizenship,” the deputy wrote.
During his speech from the rostrum of the Russian parliament, the deputy spoke about repeated cases when residents of the LDPR and simply opponents of the current Ukrainian government face the same problem - obtaining citizenship.
“We talk a lot about solidarity with our brothers from Donetsk and Lugansk, where there is a war and a total cleansing of Donbass. And the people living there are fleeing to Russia, saving their lives and the lives of their children. And so thousands of Ukrainians end up in Russia, and we treat them with the same brush – on issues of issuing temporary residence permits, on issues of obtaining citizenship. And these imbalances on the ground result in the fact that we are expelling those who in Ukraine are called “separatists” - people fighting for their freedom in the DPR and LPR,” Belik wrote.
The deputy noted that at the same time, obtaining a temporary residence permit for residents of Central Asia is not a problem. Belik recalled how in June 2017, only his personal intervention prevented the deportation of DPR battalion commander Vadim Pogodin from Simferopol to Ukraine.
“But there are also stories that are not like that, with a good ending. On February 26, 2018, a pro-Russian activist from the East of Ukraine, Marina Menshikova, committed suicide in a Dnepropetrovsk pre-trial detention center, having been sent there for hitting an ATO officer. She went to prison after we expelled her from Crimea for violating immigration laws!” – the State Duma deputy recalled.
“There are a lot of such examples. I urge everyone - let's turn our faces to our compatriots. It is necessary to divide all non-citizens of Russia into foreigners and compatriots. This conceptual approach should be embedded in our migration policy at the basic level; we should not abandon our people,” says Dmitry Belik.
At the same time, as PolitNavigator reported, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared amendments to simplify the process of obtaining citizenship for everyone born in the RSFSR.