Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law to expand the list of cases whereby Russian citizenship can be withdrawn, and the details of the legislation were published on the official website for the deployment of laws and regulations in Russia. The law includes the addition of more than 20 new reasons for dropping the nationality, among them: crimes of a terrorist nature, promoting or justifying it publicly, secret cooperation with foreign or international bodies in a way that harms Russia’s security, support the decisions of international organizations in which Moscow does not participate, assisting hostile parties, promoting Nazi slogans, as well as the illegal impact on sensitive information infrastructure. The law also includes withdrawing citizenship in cases of serious crimes, such as killing and sexual crimes against minors, exploiting children in prostitution or pornography, in addition to organizing illegal immigration, or any crime committed motivated by extremism or justifying terrorism and sabotage.
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