2024/08/07 by Tetyana Malyarenko, Borys Kormych · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics #European Politics and Security #Eastern European Communism and Reforms
paper · doi:10.1080/17449057.2024.2386794
openalex publication_date 2024/08/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
The Russian citizenship policy toward Ukrainian citizens, both in Russia and in the occupied Ukrainian territories, underwent significant transformation during periods of grey zone conflict and conventional war. We argue that the citizenship policy, which manifests itself in ‘passportization,’ is a function of Russian military—political tactics on the battlefield and the changing priorities of its policy of entrenchment in occupied territories. Russia’s citizenship policy is a comprehensive set of direct and indirect mechanisms that encourage Ukrainians to obtain Russian citizenship, which, in the long-term perspective, represents an obstacle to any attempts at de-occupation and reintegration of territories with Ukraine.