Currently, the legislative bill approved in Russia’s State Duma during the first and other readings for amendment to the laws “On citizenship of the Russian Federation” and “On military duty and military service” provides that all groups of foreigners are capable of doing military service and that it is mandatory for them to do so before they can apply for citizenship of the Russian Federation.

Foreign citizens must complete military service to apply for Russian citizenship.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the Chairman of the State Duma, prepared some amendment provisions. “As of now, foreign citizens and stateless males who receive the citizenship of the Russian Federation must do military registration at the respective place of residency or stay in accordance with federal law.”

According to the document, all male foreign citizens who have acquired Russian citizenship and are in the age range for the provision of service are now required to complete military registration at their place of residence. The bill coordinates the procedures for registering the military draft and obtaining Russian citizenship.

Vyacheslav Volodin emphasized mandatory military registration for new citizens.

The Russian Senate or the Federation Council of Russia has passed a law requiring an individual who fails to register for a compulsory call for the armed forces to have his or her Russian citizenship withdrawn. An individual will also be denied Russian citizenship if he or she supplies information that he or she knows is false.

The document also obligates inter-agency interior entities to consult the military register data on male individuals who have been accorded Russian citizenship prior to swearing in the oath of citizenship.

The bill aligns military draft registration with citizenship procedures.

These amendments complement the law on Military Duty and Military Service. Thus, the explanatory note to the law states that individuals who obtain a Russian passport and are foreigners must report themselves to the military commissariat of their respective area.

For this matter, the Russian Interior Ministry agencies are required to report information on males regarding whom decisions on the conferral of Russian citizenship are made and who are planning to take the oath of Russian citizenship electronically in the framework of the unified system of interagency electronic cooperation.

Failure to register for military service can lead to citizenship withdrawal.

More significant controversies include the fact that after receiving Russian citizenship, persons of the mentioned profile avoid the fulfillment of conscription. In this respect, failure to perform tasks associated with the primary mandatory census for calling up foreigners to military service will be punished with deprivation of Russian citizenship.

The work will go on regarding other legislation issues that have to do with migration problems. “We are still working on 22 pieces of legislation concerning the migration control, the legal status of the foreigners, the citizenship issues, what’s expected to happen, this will continue,” according to Volodin during the plenary session of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

22 pieces of migration-related legislation are under review, according to Volodin.

It warned clients that it is shut for summer break and will be back in September 2024. The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, and its creation was provided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993.