Cabinet of Ministers prepares draft law on criminal liability for holding Russian passport
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — WEDNESDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:24
Ukraine has prepared a draft law that provides for criminal responsibility for obtaining a Russian passport in the temporarily occupied territories; the Cabinet of Ministers called for this.
Source: Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporary Occupied Territories
Details: Experts from the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Security Service, the Ministry of Reintegration, human rights defenders and people's deputies have jointly prepared a draft law that introduces criminal liability for:
- acquisition of citizenship or obtaining a Russian passport by state officials or representatives of local self-government in the absence of signs of high treason;
- propaganda, public appeals, and coercion to act correspondingly;
- restriction of the rights of people who have not received citizenship or passports from the Russian Federation.
The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporary Occupied Territories noted that obtaining a Russian passport in the temporarily occupied territories is justified only if a person thus tries to return to the territory controlled by Ukraine through Russia and third countries.
Previously:
- On 11 July, president of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a simplified procedure for granting citizenship in Russia to all Ukrainians.
- Russian occupiers began to resort to various gimmicks to force people to get a Russian passport in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
- The President's Office said that issuing Russian passports to residents of the occupied territories is meaningless because this passport is not recognised worldwide.
- Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk advised residents of the occupied territories not to assume Russian citizenship.
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