In our country today you can observe an amazing phenomenon: thousands of Russian military family members are legally citizens of other countries or stateless persons. Moreover, there are also officers, ensigns, midshipmen who can formally be considered as non-citizens, because if a person does not have an identity card with the State Emblem of the USSR (there are no others yet) an insert of a citizen of the Russian Federation or a passport with a double-headed eagle, which means that from a legal point of view, he is illegally wearing a Russian military uniform. After all, in accordance with the current legislation, only citizens of this state with documentary confirmation of this can serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The question, it would seem, is not worth a damn: there are many legal absurdities in our reality that the majority of the Russian people may simply not encounter during their entire life. But no, the Orientir mail shows that the problem of non-citizenship is sometimes faced by military personnel and their family members in the Russian open spaces, like a wall made of high-quality concrete. What is the procedure for acquiring citizenship of the Russian Federation? For a comment, we turned to the senior prosecutor of the International Law Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Colonel of Reserve Justice Nikolai BAZHENOV. As Nikolai Ivanovich explained, citizens of other states and stateless persons living both abroad and in Russia can acquire citizenship of the Russian Federation under certain conditions. Registration of documents for its purchase is carried out at the place of residence of the applicant: if the person lives on the territory of the Russian Federation, he applies to the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation, if outside the Russian Federation - to the diplomatic and consular offices of the Russian Federation in the country of residence of the ... Читать далее