Chronically ill Ukrainians in occupation face loss of free medication access without Russian citizenship
Russia's new policy, set to take effect in 2025, affects all medical categories, including chronic conditions like diabetes and asthma.
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ISW: Russian “compatriot card” program potentially justifying future foreign interventions
Russia creating "Electronic Compatriot Card" program offering services, possibly citizenship to Russians abroad, likely for justifying further aggression, ISW says.
Ukrainians in occupied territories face healthcare denial without Russian passports
In Starobilsk, occupied Luhansk Oblast, residents are being denied medical services if they do not possess a Russian passport.
Ukrainians who resist Russian passportization face cruel torture – Center for National Resistance
Ukraine’s Center for National Resistance reports that Russian occupiers in Kherson Oblast are resorting to physical violence to…
Putin-backed citizenship legislation tips his plans of more aggression and annexation
If the leader of any other country proposed new citizenship legislation that would give his government the power…
Russian passport-holders in occupied Donbas shuttled to vote for Putin’s Constitution
Russia is shuttling residents of its statelets in eastern Ukraine to vote for the constitutional amendments set to…
Is Russia’s passport scheme in Donbas a harbinger of full-scale invasion like in 2008 Georgia?
The decision sparked international outrage and indignation. The Ukrainian Ministry of foreign affairs in its statement called Putin’s…
Putin’s new “passport policy”: facts and consequences
In late April, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a simplified procedure allowing residents of the…
Is handing out passports in the Donbas Putin’s solution to Russia’s demographic collapse?
Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer Russian citizenship to those living in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine and possibly others…
Putin’s passport scheme signal of further aggression against Ukraine, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s plan to offer Russian citizenship to anyone in the Russian-occupied portions of the Donbas who wants…
Moscow to start distributing Russian passports in the occupied Donbas
Even as Vladimir Putin decreed that Moscow recognizes documents issued by its clients the “Donetsk Peoples Republic” and…