On January 4, the Russian President signed a citizenship decree expediting Russian citizenship for foreigners and stateless persons
Outrage from Ukraine over decree signed by President Putin allowing Ukrainian children who move to Russia to be granted Russian citizenship.
Last March, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin over Russia’s policy of forced deportation of children.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called the decree illegal. However, Russia insists it is taking children out of harm’s way.
On January 4, the Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a citizenship decree which expedites Russian citizenship to foreigners and stateless persons.
Ukraine’s foreign ministry singled out the passage as saying that Ukrainian orphans or those deprived of parental custody can quickly obtain Russian citizenship through a presidential decree or at the request of the institution holding them.
The decree states that an application for citizenship for such a child can be submitted by his legal guardian or the head of a Russian organization responsible for the child.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry sees this as Russia’s attempt to solve its own demographic crisis, describing it as a violation of Ukrainian and international law and children’s rights.
The decree is further evidence of Russia’s policy of forced assimilation of Ukrainian children and crimes against Ukraine in general, the ministry added.
Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, says Moscow is granting citizenship to the children so they are not considered Ukrainians who have been taken to Russia.
Source :Skai
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