04 May 2026 09:03<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the United States Department of State is \u201cliterally forcing\u201d US citizenship on children of Russian diplomats. She described this as a tool of pressure on personnel and an example of the decline of what she called \u201cthe much-vaunted American democracy.\u201d According to her, this practice has been used since 2023. She did not specify how many children have been affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe State Department, or those behind the fa\u00e7ade of American diplomacy, have begun to extend US citizenship to children of employees of Russian consulates born within US jurisdiction\u2014literally by force\u2014under the pretext of the constitutionally enshrined \u2018right of the soil\u2019 and the allegedly limited nature of consular immunity,\u201d Zakharova wrote in a column for Vedomosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n The spokesperson stressed that the actions of US officials contradict both international law and US domestic law. She argued that diplomats are not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the host country, and therefore, birthright citizenship does not automatically apply to their children. She noted that the Supreme Court of the United States has previously excluded children of foreign diplomats from those granted citizenship by birth, and that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations guarantees diplomats immunity from \u201ccompulsory obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n Zakharova also described the granting of citizenship as the work of the \u201cdeep state.\u201d \u201cThe Russian side does not recognise the imposition of American citizenship on Russian nationals born to families of our diplomatic, administrative-technical, and consular personnel in the United States,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Caliber.Az<\/p>\n Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n Views: 59<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"04 May 2026 09:03 Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the United States Department of State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[569,575,574,570,573,568,572,571,567,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-14503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","12":"tag-international-experts","13":"tag-interviews","14":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","15":"tag-news-from-baku","16":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan","17":"tag-russia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}