How is it possible that a person born in Russia, with parents that were indeed born in Russia, is not born as a Russian citizen?
Tip: This riddle is a little tricky, but when you think about it should come.
How is it possible that a person born in Russia, with parents that were indeed born in Russia, is not born as a Russian citizen?
Tip: This riddle is a little tricky, but when you think about it should come.
It is possible if that person is Smirnov.
Smirnov was born on RSFSR territory in 1950. In 1979, he married and moved his permanent residence to the Lithuanian SSR. He divorced in 1992 and returned to the RSFSR on December 8, 1992. He then applied for a notice of Russian citizenship in his passport, but this was rejected by executive officers. His claim was also rejected by common jurisdiction courts, including the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
The position of the executive officers and the courts was that Smirnov, in accordance with Article 13 of the Citizenship Act, was a former citizen of the Russian Federation, but not a citizen of the Russian Federation since February 6, 1992.
Source: Wikipedia
Both parents were born
in Russia, but not to Russian citizens,
and are therefore
not Russian citizens themselves.
Their child is consequently not a Russian citizen either.
I know, it's an amazing coincidence, but you see, Carol and Jack were both
embassy-kids, born to expats -- American diplomats. So they were both Americans in Moscow. They met in Washington, married, and moved to Moscow
when Jack followed in his father's footsteps. Their daughter Rose was born in Moscow like her parents.
Both parents were born in places that were then in Russia but are now in e.g. Finland or Kazakhstan?
Parents were born before February 6, 1992 to Russian residents, who themselves were born prior to December 30, 1922, and moved elsewhere before returning to visit and giving birth. (Not sure, though. Would the parents have any citizenship?)
...Or the parents denounced their citizenship but delivered on a vacation to Siberia.
The kid was born on a plane above Russia but the parents (who decided to do this is the bathroom) both passed out. The mother because of the pain, and father who had been frightened to death for his wife. They weren't found until they arrived at their destination, then they were found in the bathroom, so the baby was given [Destination] citizen ship?