“This bill will not require a five-year tenure in order to obtain Russian citizenship,” Interfax quotes Kalashnikova.
He said that this "will affect four countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan."
In addition, according to him, the citizens of these countries “will not need to prove their financial situation”.
Earlier, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a government project on the abolition of the exam for citizens of Belarus and Ukraine to obtain the status of Russian speakers.
In the fall of 2019, Leonid Kalashnikov announced that the government would introduce a bill on simplified citizenship, which would require the abolition of the requirement to renounce citizenship in another country.
He called the project a revolutionary in the field of citizenship.