They ordered a passport to prove

The Russian Embassy in the UK has doubted the presence of Russian citizenship among the writer Vladimir Bukovsky, the former Soviet Politzek. It is precisely these doubts that the diplomatic mission explains in published on the eve of the commentary many -month wires with the issuance of a new passport to Bukovsky to replace the expired.

According to the embassy, ​​Bukovsky, contacting the consular department for a new passport in March, failed to confirm his citizenship, presenting "documents provided for by the regulations." In this regard, the diplomatic mission continues, the writer submitted an application with a request to conduct "the standard for applicants who find themselves in such a situation, verification of circumstances indicating the presence or absence of citizenship."

"The audit conducted on the basis of the data reported by V.K. Bukovsky was not able to confirm the citizenship, which he was reported in writing in April by the city, - the commentary said.“ In addition, the applicant was invited to contact the consular department of the consultation. In October, the consular department was visited by the assistant V.K. Bukovsky, who was explained in detail the procedure for further actions. ”

According to Kommersant, an official of the consular department explained that in the Russian foreign policy archive there is no data on Bukovsky’s receipt of Russian citizenship. “In the 90s, it was such that citizens of the USSR received a Russian passport without proper citizenship,” said the interlocutor of the newspaper. He added that Bukovsky would help the appeal to the Presidential Citizenship Commission.

The writer himself, for his part, told the publication that having all the necessary information about the citizen is included in the duties of the state.

Bukovsky added that when he was expelled in 1976, he was not deprived of Soviet citizenship from the USSR, and in 1992 he received a Russian passport. When a year later the writer wanted to abandon Russian citizenship, the embassy was explained to him that such a procedure does not exist. Later in the 1990s, Bukovsky was not allowed to go home twice. "The Russian passport was expired, but they did not give it on an English visa," the writer explained. He received the new Russian passport only in 2007.

Meanwhile, according to Echo of Moscow, the head of the Presidential Council of Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov promised that his structure would help Bukovsky in obtaining a passport, if it causes problems. So far, Fedotov emphasized, there is no problem - there are simply collection of documents and their verification.

The fact that Bukovsky is not issued a passport was known in late October. On October 31, State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov sent a request to the head of the Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov on this occasion. The response to this request by law should be given within a month.

Bukovsky himself is confident that he is intentionally not allowed to go home. “They don’t want me to go there, I know,” he said in an interview with “Voice of America”. “The last time I was there in the verdict in the Khodorkovsky case, which was postponed as a result, they put two cars with two operars. And these groups drove me day and night, 24 hours a day, on the house, where I lived, where I lived, and Sasha, and Sasha, and Sasha, and Sasha, and Sasha, and Sasha, and Sasha, and Sasha is a racer. When I flew, I was detained at passport control, they said that something is unclear with the passport, they say, wait for the moment that my plane flew away, and then they said-come in, everything is in order, as they say, there is nowhere thicker. ”

“I know, while this regime is in power, they won’t let me go there anymore. When it collapses, then I will not need any passport,” Bukovsky added.