Putin: those acquiring Russian citizenship should swear oath

  07 June 2017    Read: 1408
Putin: those acquiring Russian citizenship should swear oath
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he shared the opinion on the necessity to introduce amendments to the laws to enable stripping those convicted of terrorism of citizenship.
"A consultation with the Constitutional Court is needed, of course. But overall I share this position," Putin said at a meeting with the speaker of the Russian lower house Vyacheslav Volodin.

The president also spoke of the details of acquiring citizenship, and put forward an idea for those acquiring citizenship to swear an oath to prove their intentions to "observe the laws, traditions, to respect those traditions, history."

Volodin said that all the political factions of the lower house agreed on the need to introduce an amendment implying possibility of stripping of citizenship for terrorism by revoking the decision to grant citizenship, Sputnik reported.

The Russian parliament's lower chamber is ready to look into the international experience in the issue of swearing in while acquiring citizenship and to propose a draft text of the oath, Volodin added.

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