@ARTICLE{Molodikova_Irina_The_2017,
 author={Molodikova, Irina},
 volume={vol. 6},
 number={No 1},
 journal={Central and Eastern European Migration Review},
 pages={98-119},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk, Ośrodek Badań nad Migracjami UW},
 abstract={Acquiring citizenship in the country of resettlement is the ultimate step on the integration pathway of a resettled person. For people from countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU), we can see a great variety in patterns of citizenship acquisition and changes in migration policy governing the granting of citizenship. Russia is the main player in this field. As a descendant of the fSU, the country uses its right to determine whether or not to grant its citizenship to people in the new independent countries as a way of maintaining its influence on the post-Soviet and even the former Russian Empire regions. Russian citizenship was granted to m 8.6 million people between 1992 and 2016 (excluding the Crimean popu-lation), more than 92 per cent of whom were from the fSU. Russia employs a range of different policies, starting with its compatriot policy for individual resettlement; then comes its not formally declared pol-icy of issuing Russian passports for the population of non-recognised states (such as Transdnestria) and finally there is Russia’s policy of automatically granted citizenship for 2 million Crimean people. This paper explores the phenomenon of Russian citizenship policy and compares it with European or Eura-sian policy governing fSU countries. It also discusses the implementation of this policy at both regional and global levels.},
 type={Research report},
 title={The Transformation of Russian Citizenship Policy in the Context of European or Eurasian Choice: Regional Prospects},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/118008/PDF-MASTER/7_Molodikova_The_Transformation_of_Russian_Citizenship_Policy.pdf},
 keywords={citizenship policy, migration, resettlement, Russia, fSU},
}