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FSB revokes Russian citizenship from seven people from Central Asia and Caucasus
The FSB said it had revoked the Russian citizenship of seven people from Central Asia and the Caucasus in six regions of the country over actions it deemed a threat to national security and interethnic relations.
RuskiGazeta Editorial DeskUpdated:
The FSB’s Public Relations Center said that seven people from Central Asia and the Caucasus living in six Russian regions had been stripped of their Russian citizenship. The grounds cited were “actions posing a threat to national security and interethnic relations.”
Those deprived of their citizenship included residents of Zabaykalsky Krai, Tambov Region, Khakassia (two people), and Tver, Ivanovo and Perm regions.
The FSB’s Public Relations Center clarified that two of those deprived of their citizenship—a married couple from Khakassia who came from Central Asia—had received Russian passports through a simplified procedure in 2007. According to the agency, it was later established that they had incited interethnic hostility and instilled it in their children, including by prohibiting them from speaking Russian. A resident of Tambov who also lost his citizenship had, according to the FSB, propagated ethnic superiority and is currently serving a sentence for an offense involving weapons. According to the FSB, one of them had disseminated calls for open confrontation with law enforcement agencies.
Tightening of migration policy
Against this backdrop, Federation Council Chair Valentina Matviyenko called on migrants to assimilate. Earlier, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said that migrant entry into Russia had declined by 10% over the first nine months of the year.
In recent years, Russia has steadily tightened its migration legislation, including by expanding the grounds for terminating acquired citizenship.
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