According to the document, they can be recognized as carriers provided that they themselves or their direct relatives permanently reside or previously permanently resided in Russia or in the territory belonging to the Russian Empire or the USSR, within the Russian state border.

According to the Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, the initiative will allow avoiding “bureaucratic red tape” for obtaining citizenship.

In addition, deputies reduced the term for consideration of applications for citizenship from six to three months in a simplified manner.

As noted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the cancellation of the interview for fluent Russian-speaking Ukrainians and Belarusians will help optimize the admission to citizenship of about 200 thousand people.