Post-Soviet citizenship was granted during the USSR breakup based primarily on prior permanent residence.
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
refutedsupported
the weight of evidence
1 source for · 0 against
AS REPORTEDno primary record reached; this is what the reporting says
Official legal documentation regarding Ukraine indicates that permanent residence on the territory at the time of independence served as the basis for automatically granting citizenship.
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Ukraine: Citizenship Legislation
July 1998
LL File No. 1998-2618
LRA-D-PUB-001423
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98-2618
UKRAINE:
CITIZENSHIP LEGISLATION
An analysis of Ukrainian constitutional and administrative legislation leads to the conclusion that each person who was permanently residing in Ukraine on the day of the enactment of the Law on Citizenship of Ukraine on November 13, 1991, without being a citizen of another state, and all citizens of the former USSR who at the moment of proclamation of Ukrainian independence (August 24, 1991) and permanently lived on Ukrainian territory automatically became citizens of the Republic of Ukraine. This provision is stated in article 2 of the Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Ukraine which was passed by the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of th