Moscow to ban state officers & army personnel from holding overseas citizenships & residence permits as a part of main reform

Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a brand new invoice to ban civil servants and armed forces personnel from holding different allegiances. The measure is about to use to round a million state workers.

They are going to be prohibited from holding overseas citizenships and residence permits below the plan, which has been revealed within the State Duma’s on-line database.

“A soldier, a federal state civil servant, an worker of state safety our bodies can solely be a citizen of the Russian Federation who doesn’t have citizenship (nationality) of a overseas state or a residence allow or different doc confirming the fitting of everlasting residence of a citizen of the Russian Federation on the territory of a overseas state,” the laws offers.

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Final week, the State Duma waved via an identical invoice banning members of the State Council from the identical rights, in addition to having accounts with overseas banks.

Nevertheless, earlier this month, laws was launched to formally enable Russian spies and intelligence officers to take overseas citizenship and residence permits if required as a part of their missions. Beforehand, this had been a sackable offense for the nation’s spooks.

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