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Russia's "passportisation" of the Donbas: The mass naturalisation of Ukrainians is more than a foreign policy tool
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Abstract Russia has so far issued almost 200,000 Russian passports to Ukrainians from the "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk. This undermines the Minsk peace process. The passportisation of the Donbas is part of a tried and tested set of foreign policy instruments. Russia is deliberately making it m... view more
Russia has so far issued almost 200,000 Russian passports to Ukrainians from the "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk. This undermines the Minsk peace process. The passportisation of the Donbas is part of a tried and tested set of foreign policy instruments. Russia is deliberately making it more difficult to resolve territorial conflicts in the post-Soviet space by creating controlled instability. This demonstrative intervention in state sovereignty exerts pressure on the Ukrainian central government in Kyiv. Domestically, Russia’s goal is to counteract its own natural population decline through immigration. Because of the war in eastern Ukraine, more and more Ukrainians have migrated to Russia; this was one of the reasons behind Russia revising its migration strategy in 2018. The liberalisation of citizenship legislation was aimed particularly at Ukraine. By delaying any resolution to the conflict, Russia achieves two objectives simultaneously: it retains permanent influence on Ukraine via the Donbas, and it becomes more attractive to many Ukrainians as a destination for emigration. (author's abstract)... view less
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International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Free Keywords
Russische Föderation; Ukraine; Bilaterale internationale Beziehungen; Bilateraler internationaler Konflikt; Ostukraine; Donec'kij kam'janovugil'nij basejn; Bevölkerung; Erwerb der Staatsangehörigkeit; Russisch; Einwanderungsrecht; Außenpolitische Ziele; Demographische Faktoren; Donetskaja Narodnaja Respublika (Ukraina); Luganskaja Narodnaja Respublika (Ukraina); Doppelstaatsangehörigkeit; Reisepass/Personalausweis; Bürgerkrieg; Bemühungen um Konfliktbeilegung; Internationale Konfliktverhandlungen
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
8 p.
Series
SWP Comment, 41/2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2020C41
ISSN
1861-1761
Status
Published Version; reviewed
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Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications