Forced certification: how the Russian Federation forces pensioners and entrepreneurs to change citizenship

Russian "passports" in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya region are forced to take pensioners who have lost their pensions, owners of land and entrepreneurs who agreed to cooperate with collaborators. Russian invaders, using their power, force pensioners in the temporarily uncontrolled territories of Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions to obtain Russian citizenship. The focus told about it in his material. "In energy, forced certification is underway.

At first, pensioners who received pensions through" Ukrposhta "and payments stopped, went to receive the promised Russian Federation of 10 thousand rubles of so -called social assistance, leaving their passport data. Russian passport is a requirement for obtaining the following payments, " - says in a comment to focus Mykola, a resident of the occupied energy of Zaporizhzhya region.

In addition, they are forced to take Russian passports and those who need to re -register property - under Russian laws and using Russian documents. So far, this practice does not apply to apartments, but only land. "Entrepreneurs in Kherson region are divided into two parts. Some work in the natural market, in the shadow economy, try to avoid contact with the Russian occupation authorities.

Others are forced to go to all conditions," says Vladimir Molchanov, Kherson political scientist who left after the start . - At first they paid for the so -called permits for conducting business activities, received them, worked. Russia does not apply to this territory, and accordingly, they have to open accounts with Russian banks, and this requires a Russian passport, that is, those who thought that they could obtain permission and they do not oblige anything - they were wrong.

Now It is not just coexistence, but cooperation. ”Recall that in July Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to issue Russian citizenship All Ukrainians in simplified mode, signing the appropriate decree. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine answered: the decree is another confirmation of the course for the seizure of Ukrainian lands and forced assimilation. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that attempts to impose Russian citizenship would not lead to anything.