Any Ukrainian national may now apply for Russian citizenship under a simplified scheme, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Monday. The measure also applies to stateless persons permanently living in Ukraine as well as to citizens of the two Donbass republics, recognized earlier by Russia as …
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The frontman and guitarist of 90’s pop-punk band Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong, announced he was “f***ing renouncing my citizenship” and moving to London in the midst of a profane tirade during a performance on the band’s Hella Mega tour at London Stadium on Friday. The 50-year-old rocker’s exclamation was …
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Ukrainian lawmakers have introduced a bill that seeks to deprive conscripts of citizenship if they left the country during martial law. In a bill registered in the Verkhovna Rada – Ukraine’s parliament – on Tuesday, lawmakers proposed several amendments to legislation defining the legal regime under martial law intended to …
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One of Russia’s wealthiest people, Mikhail Prokhorov, has applied for Israeli citizenship, the country’s media reported on Monday. Several days ago, Prokhorov, who is listed by Bloomberg as Russia’s 14th richest individual with a net worth of $11.4 billion, arrived on a private jet from Switzerland, and has since filed …
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The legislation, which is currently going through the ‘reporting stage’ before being presented to parliament for a third reading, has been quietly updated. The latest edition of the bill includes a clause which would give the home secretary powers to strip someone of their citizenship, without telling them. Clause 9 …
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I am a South African-born US patriot. My first apartment overlooked the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington DC. I didn’t understand the reverence with which the guards saluted the American flag. I was annoyed when people said, ‘Have a nice day!’ Americans, I decided, were overfed and under-read. Then my …
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The data, which was cited by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, came from the government’s response to an inquiry by the right-wing anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD). Out of 330 individuals listed as threats on the basis of “religious ideology” as of July 1, 186 were either exclusively German nationals or …
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses the computer program, named ATLAS, to examine biometric information of immigrants – including their personal relationships, social media profiles – and runs fingerprints through federal databases like the FBI terrorist watchlist. The agency states ATLAS was built to ‘automate’ and ‘streamline’ the flow …
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Police launched an investigation earlier this month after discovering that Suarez, whose move from Barcelona to Juventus fell through, allegedly attempted to cheat the test at the University of Perugia. The director of the university and three professors were suspended for eight months after an initial report found they attempted to …
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In 1995, having just left a cushy cubicle job in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, out of mind-numbing boredom, I received an invitation to visit Russia. It was the dead of winter, so how could I refuse? When the wheels of that Air France flight touched down at Sheremetyevo Airport in the middle …
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