Lithuania wants to limit the issuance of citizenship to Russians/Collage 24 channels
In Lithuania, a draft was prepared with amendments to the law on citizenship. People who support the occupying country that threatens others will lose their Russian passports.
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This initiative was prepared by members of the Saeima Dalia Asanaviciute, Stasis Šedbaras and Andrius Vishnyauskas. The bill is scheduled to be registered on August 11.
“There are 6 cases of deprivation of Lithuanian citizenship, but there is no one that would provide for a mechanism for depriving a person of citizenship, a citizen of another country, who received Lithuanian citizenship as an exception, if he supports the aggressors and thus poses a threat to Lithuania, the region and allies,” the explanatory note noted. bill note
Reason for changing the law
Politicians who proposed amendments to the law believe that this is necessary “taking into account the current situation of the Russian war in Ukraine and the threat to Lithuania, as well as the entire region.” They pointed out that the current legal norm that determines the grounds for the loss of citizenship does not correspond to the geopolitical situation.
The reason for the changes in the law was the story when the figure skater Margarita Drobyazko received Lithuanian citizenship as an exception. Subsequently, she and her husband took part in a show program organized by his wife Dmitry Peskov in Sochi.
President Gitanas Nauseda took Lithuanian state awards from them. Now the figure skater's family lives in Russia.
Stop issuing visas
President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the world to isolate Russians. Citizens of a terrorist country are no longer wanted in a number of countries.
Visas will not be issued (or partially limited) in such states:
- Belgium;
- Bulgaria;
- Denmark;
- Estonia;
- Latvia;
- Lithuania;
- Malta;
- Netherlands;
- Norway;
- Slovakia;
- Thailand;
- Czech Republic;
- Japan.
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