Over 4,500 Migrants Lost Russian Citizenship in Past Year
There are more than 80 grounds for depriving acquired Russian citizenship according to the law, said State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
Consensus
- More than 4,500 people lost their acquired Russian citizenship in the past year.
- The data on the number of people deprived of citizenship comes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs as of May 2026.
- A federal law entered into force in April 2023 that expanded the grounds for revoking Russian citizenship.
- More than 3,000 individuals lost citizenship due to criminal convictions after acquiring Russian citizenship.
- Over 400 people lost citizenship due to failure to register for military service.
- Approximately 300 people lost citizenship due to actions creating a threat to national security.
- The law provides more than 80 grounds for revoking acquired citizenship.
- The law applies to those who committed serious crimes after obtaining Russian citizenship.
Points of divergence
- 40% of citizenship revocation decisions occurred in the last year. — kommersant
- The law came into effect on April 28, 2023, and the number of people deprived of citizenship exceeds 4,500 since 2023. — vm
- The list of grounds includes crimes such as organizing prostitution, production and distribution of child pornography, crimes against the constitutional order, illegal migration, and extremist or terrorism-related offenses. — vesti
Coverage (3 sources)
- Vologdin: in a year more than 4,5 thousand migrants were deprived of Russian citizenship — Коммерсантъ
- Vologdin: Since 2023 more than 4500 people have lost acquired Russian citizenship — Вечерняя Москва
- Vologdin listed grounds for termination of acquired Russian citizenship — Вести