
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the concept of “non-citizenship” used in the Baltic countries is an invention and has no basis in international law, emphasizing that Russia will protect the rights of compatriots exclusively within the international legal framework.
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In the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia) there is a category of persons who received the status of “non-citizens” after the collapse of the USSR, who do not have citizenship of any country and face restrictions on their rights.
“The fact that they came up with ‘non-citizenship’ is all an invention in the Baltic countries. These are not citizens, not foreigners, not bipatrids. These are non-citizens. But this is nonsense, which has already been a fact of international life for more than one year,” Putin told reporters.
He added that Russia will continue to fight for the rights of compatriots, but in the international legal framework. Putin stressed that Russia never intended to use other instruments and does not intend to do so.
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Russia will continue to raise the issue of the status of compatriots in the Baltics on international platforms
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