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Russia’s Practice of Extraditing Political Offenders to Azerbaijan: Rendition Refused
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Russia's Practice of Extraditing Political Offenders to Azerbaijan: Rendition Approved
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Light Shed on the Story of Wehrmacht Generals in Soviet Captivity
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Extradition of Fugitive Criminals under the CIS Convention on Legal Assistance in Russia's Law and Practice
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Status of Minors
Soviet authors like to point out that “in contrast with the law of 1938 which only briefly referred to the citizenship of children in case of change of citizenship of parents and did not regulate at all the qu...
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Emigration and Immigration
Emigration/immigration and citizenship are discrete phenomena: entering or leaving a country need not affect the citizenship status of the migrant. Soviet law recognizes the dichotomy by serving notice that th...
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Introduction
Like its predecessor, the 1977 Constitution of the USSR contains several provisions dealing with citizenship questions. An innovation of the latest Fundamental Law is the inclusion of the item “USSR Citizenshi...
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Legislative Basis. Recognition. Marriage. Residence Abroad. Extradition
According to Article 2 of the 1978 citizenship statute, “the legislation of the USSR on Soviet citizenship consists of the present Law, defining in conformity with Article 23 of the USSR Constitution the groun...
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Dual Nationality and Soviet Diplomatic and Treaty Practice
The Soviet government has, from the outset, shown keen awareness of the grave tensions that disputes over dual nationality have habitually engendered on the diplomatic scene.1 Typical responses from Soviet quarte...
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Statelessness as a Consequence of the Conflict of Nationality Laws (Part II)
From the very first, the official doctrine of the equality of man and woman has been a cardinal principle of Soviet law, and in Soviet citizenship legislation this ingredient has throughout found expression in...
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Loss and Restoration of Soviet Citizenship
Unlike its 1938 predecessor, the new law contains a general provision (Art. 16) outlining how Soviet citizenship may be lost.1 Such termination may occur: a) upon exit from USSR citizenship; b) upon deprivation o...
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Procedural Format
A major additive to the 1978 citizenship statute consists of a lengthy subheading (Section V) devoted to the organizational modus operandi framing the consideration of applications and petitions concerning cit...
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The New Soviet Citizenship Law and Human Rights
An interesting aspect of the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the new Law on Citizenship of the USSR was the recurrent emphasis by the official rapporteur of the bill1 and three of the five delegates pic...
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Sources. Federal Citizenship and Republican Citizenship
In the thirties, when the previous citizenship statute was promulgated, preambles to legislative acts were not in fashion and, true to pattern, the 1938 law did not feature an introductory statement. Today, of...
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Dual Nationality
On the face of it, the Soviet position on the question of dual (or multiple) nationality sounds deceptively plain: within the frontiers of the USSR, the Soviet regime simply refuses to recognize the legal cons...
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Statelessness as a Consequence of the Conflict of Nationality Laws (Part I)
As compared to the precedent set in this area by the earlier citizenship legislation of the Soviet Union, perhaps the single most distinctive element of the 1938 Law on the Citizenship of the USSR was its appr...
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Acquisition of USSR Citizenship
The contents of Chapter II of the 1978 citizenship statute which deals with the subject of acquisition of USSR citizenship evince the most substantial changes consummated by the latest enactment in the exist...
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Background
The experience of Soviet economic relations with Chinese Communist quarters in fact antedates the establishment of the People’s Republic on the mainland. Active commercial contacts developed independently at b...
