According to the news of “Important Stories”, at least 12 people were deprived of their acquired Russian citizenship for refusing to register for military service and were obliged to leave the territory of Russia. Stefania Kulaeva from ADC Memorial comments on the risk of deprivation of citizenship and the risk of being sent to war when accepting Russian citizenship. She reminds that it is prohibited by law to deprive a person of his/her only citizenship, because this leads to statelessness.
