Posted on 03/15/2024 3:12:26 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Russia has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship.
A Russian passport is needed to prove property ownership and keep access to health care and retirement income. Refusal can result in losing custody of children, jail – or worse. A new Russian law stipulates that anyone in the occupied territories who does not have a Russian passport by July 1 is subject to imprisonment as a “foreign citizen.”.....
AP spoke about the system to impose Russian citizenship in occupied territories to more than a dozen people from the regions along with the activists helping them to escape and government officials trying to cope with what has become a bureaucratic and psychological nightmare for many.
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No, they don't, so they need to have the facts of life explained to them, i.e. that Russky Mir is a fantasy that is not acceptable to their neighbors.
I support letting you make a fool of yourself on FR.
Do you support sending more money to Ukraine as of today?
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