Law on Citizenship of the Russian Federation

The Law on Citizenship of the Russian Federation is one of the main documents regulating relations that are related to citizenship. The main provisions on these relations are fixed in the Constitution of the country.

The concept of citizenship of the Russian Federation is reflected in the wording of Article 3. This is a stable connection between the state and the individual, expressed in a complex of their mutual duties and rights and being built on a legal basis. The legal nature of this relationship is reflected in its legal design. FZ on the citizenship of the Russian Federation indicates that the relations between the person and the state under consideration are legal, and not only the actual state.

This relationship is not directly dependent on the fact of residence of a person in the territory of the state. The law on citizenship of the Russian Federation allows the citizens of the country to live abroad. At the same time, many foreigners who live in the country. The Law on Citizenship of the Russian Federation, therefore, gives the person an appropriate status not because of his residence on the territory of the state, but because of the established connection that constitutes the content of citizenship.

The normative provisions adopted by the state form the grounds on which the relations between the individual and the state are fixed. The Law on Citizenship of the Russian Federation provides for a list of documents that legally establish the status of a citizen. These include a birth certificate, a Russian passport and other documents that contain information about the relationship of a person with the state. The country registers state acts of the population. To them, first of all, include birth and death. Relations related to citizenship are of a sustainable nature. As a rule, they continue from birth until the death of a person. For their termination there is a special process that does not allow the dissolution of them unilaterally by the state.

The questions of acquisition form an important part of the content of the right to citizenship. It should be noted that the formation of the considered relationship between man and the state was previously built on the principle of accumulation. In other words, to acquire Russian citizenship, there was no need to renounce a foreign one. Modern regulations governing relations between the country and the individual also allow for a connection with two states. The principle under which "accumulation" occurred was due to the fact that Russia sought to facilitate the process of acquiring citizenship as much as possible for its compatriots who remained in the near abroad after the collapse of the USSR. Another reason was the demographic decline of the population, which at that time acquired a catastrophic character.

It should be noted some differences in the provisions of modern legislation from the norms of past acts. So, in the matter of acquiring citizenship by the law of 1991, such a point as "recognition" is indicated as the basis. At the same time, recognition and acquisition are two different forms of formation of the state's relationship with a person. These forms differ in the presence or absence of the will of the person.

Acquisition of citizenship in accordance with the recognition took place automatically. For registration it was not required to submit any documents. According to the first part of Article 13 of the Citizenship Act, it was established that any citizen of the former USSR who had resided permanently in Russia at the time of the Act's enactment was recognized as a Russian citizen. The status was maintained by the person, if the latter did not declare his refusal within a year.