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Russia Quietly Strips Emigres of Dual Citizenship. Tens of thousands of Russian dual nationals are being effectively stripped of their Russian citizenship via a quiet policy of Russian consulates worldwide refusing to renew their passports. Under new regulations the consulates are enforcing, anyone seeking to renew a passport who was not registered as living in Russia on February 6, 1. It is unclear just how many people this new policy will affect. But it will certainly apply to thousands of Jews who emigrated from Russia after July 1, 1.
Soviet Union, then in its final days, ended its policy of taking away the passports of Jews who left the country with exit visas to Israel. Many actually moved to the United States or to Europe once they got out, despite the Israeli stamp on their exit visa. But under the late Soviet policy, which was continued by the successor Russian government following the Soviet Union’s breakup, Jews could, for the first time, like others, become dual nationals.
This allowed them to return freely to Russia to visit — or even move back if they changed their minds.“I’ve always had two citizenships, two languages, two identities and two cultures. It’s who I am,” said Katya Rouzina, a 2. Russian instructor and graduate student who expects her Russian passport application will be rejected—as was this reporter’s—because she left Russia before February 1. Like many Russian expatriates, Rouzina, who moved to the United States when she was 1- year- old, considers her continued tie to Russia a matter of identity. That just makes me angry,” she said. Like the United States, the Russian Federation allows for dual citizenship, though estimates of how many Russians have this status vary widely. Konstantin Romodanovsky, the director of Russia’s Federal Migration Service, told the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that between 1 million and 6 million Russians have dual citizenship.
Asked about the new policy, which was never formally announced, the Russian Embassy in Washington confirmed the change, which it said was not a matter of any new law passed by the country’s legislature. An expired passport isn’t considered a valid document.”The Russian Consulate in New York City acknowledged that in the past, Russia had issued passports to people who had been expatriate citizens of the old Soviet Union, even if they had never registered as residents and citizens of the new Russian Federation, established after the Soviet Union’s breakup. It acknowledged having renewed their passports, as well.“The people with such passports considered themselves citizens of the Russian Federation,” the consulate wrote in its email. We cannot issue passports to those whose Russian citizenship is not properly registered.”The consulate suggested that those caught in this situation apply for a visa to visit Russia as American citizens instead. But it is clearly on the scale of tens of thousands. For example, in 1.
Jews immigrated to Israel from Russia, while 1. United States, according to Mark Tolts, a demographics researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. These numbers do not include Jews who immigrated to other countries such as Germany, nor do they include non- Jewish immigration. Journalist Masha Gessen said thousands of people could lose their citizenship as a result of the new regulations, which she described as “really bizarre,” “insane” and “amazing.”“There cannot be such a thing as a person who was born on Russian territory and is not a Russian citizen,” she said. I think it goes with the general thinking in Russia today that everyone who is abroad is a traitor and shouldn’t be allowed to participate in the political process.”She suggested the move might be due to the concern of Vladimir Putin’s government about the voting power of Russian Israelis.
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