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In the Soviet Union, Political Migrants Could Have Been Easily Deprived of Their Citizenship, and if that Was Not Enough, Pressured on the Remaining Relatives, the New Europe Newspaper.
How to punish citizens for not being loyal or critical if they live abroad and reach out to them is not easy? The Russian State has found an answer to this question by adopting a law on so-called "civil death", which Putin signed in early August. It deprives a number of basic rights of those who have left Russia and, in particular, are being persecuted for political reasons. Among the restrictions are the prohibition on obtaining passports and t…
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How to punish citizens for not being loyal or critical if they live abroad and reach out to them is not easy? The Russian State has found an answer to this question by adopting a law on so-called "civil death", which Putin signed in early August. It deprives a number of basic rights of those who have left Russia and, in particular, are being persecuted for political reasons. Among the restrictions are the prohibition on obtaining passports and t…