• coolusername@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Surely they gave all the ethnic Russians in the 2 independent republics who fled east at the start of the war citizenship?

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Russia gave citizenship on location basis, not on ethnicity basis. So a lot of ethnic Ukrainians from Russian-controlled areas got citizenship, while ethnic Russians from the rest of Ukraine don’t get preferential treatment.