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A Russian foreign policy key priority is the compatriots' return to the homeland, says Chairman of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, European Integration and Relations with Compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov. According to him, the compatriots' coming back may improve demographic situation in the country, Parliamentskaya Gazeta reports. The MP adds that the amendment to the state program for the voluntary resettlement of compatriots from abroad will come in force soon. The bill concerns advantageous conditions for large families.
Nine more regions also joined the program. These are Ingushetia, Dagestan, the Komi Republic and so on.
The State Duma will consider amendments allowing program participants to apply for citizenship at the residence place. The bill empowers the country's head to grant citizenship in a simplified way.
The effort to ease the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship is also made. Another bill is aimed at creating favorable conditions for talented young people educated in Russian universities. Foreigners with the first-class degree of Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, federal and national research universities may receive Russian passports almost automatically. They have to apply on behalf of the universities for this.
The Russian parliament also elaborates a draft law on Ukrainian and Belarusian citizens who will not need to pass an interview in order to obtain the status of a Russian native speaker.
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