Czech parliament votes to ban dual citizenship for Russians

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/12/18/czech-parliament-votes-to-ban-dual-citizenship-for-russians-en-news

by best_ive_ever_beard

28 comments

  2. This only means new applications will be rejected/frozen, not that Russians already being dual citizens are now prone to lose their Czech citizenship, right?

  4. As a Czech person who knows a bunch of long-term Russian residents and Russian-Czech citizens with Russian-only family members: This law is a piece of populist bullshit that will do nothing to stop actual Russian agents, of which there are many (a lot of them straight up Czechs, born and raised, lol), but will make life complicated for a lot of every day honest people who just didn’t get around to getting Czech citizenship in time.

    If the Czech government wanted to fight Russian influence, there are very obvious things they could be doing, like fighting Russian disinformation, or closing down Russian embassy (half of which lies on illegally annexed land after the ’68 invasion to this day lol…). But I guess that would mean pissing off some powerful people so lets just bully the everyday man…

  6. No one should be forced to become Czech citizen it’s inhumane and unjust

  8. Banning multiple citizenship just makes life hard for normal people. Spies and agents can come from anywhere and have whatever nationality, Russia doesn’t care.

    If you want examples: in Romania we have the now famous Calin Georgescu who was funded by the Russians, only has Romanian citizenship. Again in Romania, a colombian tried to plant a bomb, backed by Russia. It doesn’t freaking matter.

    Even if we’re talking about general populations: Russia doesn’t care about citizenship. If Putin wants to invade lr whatever else, they will say that the Russian ethnicity people have to be saved and they’ve been oppressed by having to give up their Russian citizenship.

  11. As someone from Bosnia (ethnic bosniak), I notice parallels between how the EU is currently treating Russians and how they treated Serbians in the 1990s. Based on history, I believe that 10-20 years after this war ends (which I hope happens soon), the EU will likely normalize relations with Russia, just as they did with Serbia. Given Russia’s greater global significance, this seems even more probable. I question the purpose of creating difficulties for Russian citizens, as it appears to be driven mainly by populism.

  12. A Russian friend of mine was waiting for the day she could get her Czech citizenship so she could burn her Russian passport. So for those who love democracy, it’s not a problem. For those who love Russia, well fuck them

  13. russophobia…
    nothing dumber than europeans telling russians to stop living in russia but then they block their way to the eu. i support ukraine but this is just…

  16. Now look, I condemn the war, but this is clear discrimination. If this was the normal United States this would’ve been struck down immediately on the basis of violating the 14th Amendment. If it’s really about preventing Putin’s agents, then why does this law also not apply to Belarusians? Not saying this law’s OK, but Belarus is basically a Russian puppet at this point.

    Two points: firstly, why are Eastern European governments so determined to prove Putin right about the whole “the West hates Russians” thing – I thought the whole point was Ukraine’s defending itself from a dictatorship and that Putin lied all the time about the West?

    And secondly, it’s not just Russians falling for and propagating Putin’s propaganda – it’s also Westerners (think of the shit-eaters that serve to propagate Russian propaganda). How did AFD become more popular recently? Why did Marine Le Pen gain more MEPs this year and get a third of all seats in the French parliament? How did Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini get elected in Slovakia? etc, etc… Point is if you’re really concerned about Putin’s agents, you also have to look within the country as well, not just blame Russian citizens for everything.

  18. Why is everyone happy because of this??? Like the poor people are trying to escape their authorian country and move to another where theres freedom, there is no reason for them to ban dual citizenship for russians trying to live in a country with freedom of speech. (Also why tf are the comments of this this thread supporting this?! This is straight up Russophobia man)

  21. Countries sometimes make policies based on the psychology of dissatisfied crowds to attract votes without realizing how stupid that policy is.

    This makes me think of Cambodia when it left the Vietnam-Laos alliance that they proposed to promote anti-Vietnamese sentiment to collect votes from the extremist population and went to China to ask for money to continue the Funan Canal. But they left serious consequences when Vietnam and China had many benefits to gain from cooperating with each other, so the canal was abandoned. The King of Cambodia visited Vietnam and was given tea at the Temple of Literature with the arrangement implies that Cambodian leaders should relearn how to treat their neighbors.

  23. ITT: Czechs calling bs and populism on this one (rightly), the rest of /r/europe is celebrating.

    Somehow Putin spits shit about EU countries being russophobic and then he’s right, and right, and right. And I hate when he’s right, fuck you Putin bots. And NAFO bots too. Fuck Putin, fuck Latvia, fuck Estonia, fuck Finland, fuck Poland and fuck Czech Republic as well (not the citizens of these respective countries. For Lithuania we’ll see on their new government).

    Both Putin and EE states will make everything so that we’ll never be close to the EU. Fuck you all.

  24. They previously offered dual citizenship for Russians?

    Russian Fed entry requirements are the strictest in Europe. I always wondered how they somehow know if you try to get into Russia under, say, a Jamaican or Belarus passport but you now have new one that requires a visa to enter

    Also the railroad gauges are still off from the war so it’s fun going to sleep while they rip the wheels off your train so you can journey on to Eastern Europe lol

  26. I love Czechia. They will always have the enormous privilege to be the first country (together with the United States) to be put on Russia‘s unfriendly countries list. They have also massively pissed off China. They now just need to piss off Iran to have angered the trifecta of asshole countries.

  27. Do not worry, we hungarians will gift those russians a free citizenship, and trashtalk czehs at the eu parliment.

    I hate that this is possible and not a /s

  28. wouldnt this just lead to moscow not allowing rebouncing of citizensghip

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