Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a law granting Ukrainian citizens from Crimea the right to a simplified procedure for obtaining a Russian passport. This is stated in the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated January 4, 2024 No. 11 On the determination of certain categories of foreign citizens and stateless persons who have the right to apply for admission to the citizenship of the Russian Federation.
The decree states that the right to submit documents without complying with the requirements provided for in paragraphs 1 – 3 of part 1 of Article 15 of the said Federal Law is granted to such persons as:
citizens of Ukraine who do not have citizenship of another state, born and permanently residing in the territories of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Aqyar (Sevastopol), who left the specified territories before March 18, 2014, as well as their children;
stateless persons who were born and permanently resided in the territories of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Aqyar (Sevastopol), who left the specified territories before March 18, 2014, as well as their children;
citizens of Ukraine and stateless persons who have a document confirming the right to stay or a certificate of a participant in the State Program for Assistance to Voluntary Resettlement;
foreign citizens and stateless persons who were subjected to illegal deportation from the territory of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, as well as their relatives;
citizens of Afghanistan, the Republic of Iraq, the Yemen Republic and the Syrian Arab Republic, those born on the territory of the RSFSR and those who previously had USSR citizenship, as well as their children.
Photo: Crimean Wind reserve