The plan of the Russian government to introduce amendments to naturalization law to simplify the procedure for Ukrainians shows that Moscow is against any policy that aims to split apart Russian and Ukrainian peoples, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th December, 2018) The plan of the Russian government to introduce amendments to naturalization law to simplify the procedure for Ukrainians shows that Moscow is against any policy that aims to split apart Russian and Ukrainian peoples, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
"As for naturalization, this is related not only to the events in the southeast of Ukraine, and we are doing [something] not only for people who live there ... The government is now preparing amendments to the relevant law about citizenship and naturalization. Why is this being done? This is being done to show that we ... will not support the policies that aim to split up, pull apart the people of Russia and Ukraine," Putin said at his annual press conference.
The amendments will be adopted in early 2019, the president said.
Putin stressed that the current Kiev authorities were, in fact, driving the two peoples apart.
"They are carrying out, and are actually saying it out loud, the historic task: they are pulling apart Russian and Ukrainian peoples, and so everything is forgiven because of that ... This is being paid for. They will now get yet another IMF tranche," Putin said.
