According to a decree signed by the Russian president on Thursday April 27, Ukrainians from annexed territories who have not received their Russian passports by July 1, 2024 may be expelled.
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A brutal decision. The Russian President, Vladimir Poutine, signed Thursday, April 27, a decree threatening the expulsion of Ukrainians from the territories annexed by Moscow. The decree defines the means for citizens of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions to obtain Russian citizenship. The text then specifies that all Ukrainians who have not obtained a Russian passport by 1er July 2024, will be considered foreigners and may therefore be expelled from their homes.
Hunt opponents
This measure also concerns residents of Crimea, annexed in 2014. Until now, it was however possible to keep a Ukrainian passport in Crimea. An escalation which does not guarantee these new citizens the same rights as Russians by birth. Russians whose nationality isacquiredcan indeed easily lose it if they violate various provisions of the Penal Code, recalls The world . A possible provision since the adoption of the “citizenship lawon April 18.
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And that’s not all. The decree also authorizes the expulsion from these annexed territories of persons who present a “threat to national security”Who “take part in prohibited demonstrations”, “support a violent change in the constitutional order” or “finance extremist or terrorist activity”. The Kremlin is thus tightening its grip on those it considers “traitors”. The Russian president signed another decree on Friday, which increases prison sentences for acts of “high treason“. They will now be liable to life imprisonment. Those found guilty of sabotage can be sentenced to 20 years in prison compared to 15 currently.