A Soviet citizen is defined as a person born in one of the 15 states which seceded from the Soviet Union during its dissolution in December 1991. Persons born in one of these 15 states after 1991 are ...

In the old Soviet Union, ordinary citizens often reported each other to the authorities for criticism of the Communist Party. In Vladimir Putin's Russia, this Stalinist practice is experiencing a ...

Most of them are registered as natives of the ‘former Soviet Union’. An allocation method on the basis of their place of birth is used to determine the nationality of these people as citizens of one ...