19.01.2020, Saratov.
The majority of Russian citizens currently living in Crimea are at risk to be left without a chance to run for President, said an associate professor of the Chair of Constitutional and International Law at the Volga Region Institute of Management named after M. Gorky Armen Hayrapetyan. He told it in an interview to a correspondent of the Rossa Primavera News Agency on January 19.
The amendment to the Constitution, which will require the candidate to the post of the Russian President “never to possess foreign citizenship and a residence document” abroad, may restrict the possibilities of the Crimean peninsula residents. This will be the case if Vladimir Putin’s initiative is accepted “literally”.
Then former Ukrainian citizens, who now live in Crimea and Sevastopol, will be forbidden to be elected to the post of Russian President. “Only Russian citizens who were born in Crimea after the peninsula rejoined Russia will be able to compete for the post of the head of the State in the future,” – explained the PhD of legal science.
Vladimir Putin proposed amendments that differ from a similar law in the United States. In the United States, candidates for the highest office in the State need to be born in the country, added an associate professor.
On January 15, Vladimir Putin made a statement in which he proposed to discuss some amendments to the Russian Constitution. To limit the possibility of the Russian president to govern by two terms only, to strengthen the primacy of Russian law over international law, to prohibit persons with dual citizenship from being elected to the highest State posts – these are just some of the proposed initiatives.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
