The Investigative Committee proposed to deprive citizenship for all serious and especially serious crimes

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) stated the need to include in the list of reasons for deprivation of acquired Russian citizenship all serious and especially serious crimes, and not certain types of crimes, as established in the current legislation.

As noted in the TFR press release in Telegramthe law adopted in October on the deprivation of acquired citizenship of the Russian Federation does not apply, in particular, in the case of a citizen committing a murder.

For the first time about deprivation of acquired citizenship for a criminal offense in Russia became known December 13th. As reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, the Russian passports of two men were confiscated because they were brought to justice under the article on the acquisition, storage, transportation and manufacture of narcotic drugs on a large scale (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) .

December 14 TFR asked The Ministry of Internal Affairs is considering depriving seven more people of citizenship for evading military service, illegal production, sale or transfer of narcotic drugs, propaganda of terrorism, rape and sexual assault.

On December 15, the court in Chelyabinsk for the first time in Russia He has made a decision on the termination of the citizenship of two brothers who came from neighboring countries for evading military registration.

From October in Russia valid law on deprivation of acquired citizenship. The list of criminal articles for which a passport may be confiscated and required to leave the country consists of 60 points, including sabotage (Article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), desertion (Article 338 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), public calls for unleashing an aggressive war (Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), encroachment on the life of a state or public figure (Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and others.

Erdni Kagaltynov