A new issue has come to light (it existed before, but on a smaller scale) which is pressure on the Russian diaspora’s activists, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
"Based on the newly arisen challenges faced by our compatriots and the entire world, we will adjust and adapt our approaches," she added.
Last week, the Coordinating Council of the Organisations of Russian Compatriots in the United States had to suspend its activities due to persecution by the US security services.
"It is our right to maintain contacts with our homeland, preserve our cultural identity, and maintain the Russian language. this right is being violated by a number of countries, primarily the Baltic States and Ukraine. we will step up our efforts to prevent discrimination against our communities abroad, including by engaging international venues,"Zakharova noted.
Maria Zakharova also explained the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship and the accelerated procedure for obtaining it.
In the first 10 months of 2021, Russian consular missions abroad issued Russian citizenship documents to over 2,200 stateless persons and over 21,000 children born in mixed marriages in foreign countries.
The Presidential Executive Order No. 622 http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/58986 of October 31, 2018, approved the State Migration Policy Concept of the Russian Federation for 2019-2025, which focuses on voluntary resettlement for permanent residence in our country of our compatriots living abroad, as well as other persons who can be successfully integrated into Russian society.
As part of implementing this concept, the Foreign Ministry is taking part in drafting federal laws aimed at simplifying the existing rules and procedures underlying the institution of Russian citizenship. The latest changes include repealing the requirement to renounce another existing citizenship when applying for a Russian citizenship or when a preferential procedure is used to grant to citizenship with regard to the following applicants:
– persons who have received a higher education in Russia;
– highly skilled specialists with professions that are in high demand in the Russian economy;
– citizens of Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Ukraine;
– foreign nationals and stateless persons married to Russian citizens who reside in the Russian Federation and have children in this marriage.
In addition, a law was adopted with the participation of the Foreign Ministry under which several groups of citizens can be issued a residence permit and then granted Russian citizenship without the need to first obtain a temporary residence permit. These include, in particular, - people who were born in the RSFSR who were citizens of the Soviet Union; - persons who have a parent or a child who are Russian citizens and reside in the Russian Federation; and foreign citizens who are recognised as native speakers of the Russian language.
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