Exhaust color - khaki

A resident of Karelia was deprived of citizenship and sent from the country on charges of extremism due to hiking pants in the trunk

“When I was invited to the police, I thought the passport would be taken away. I'm on the list of extremists. And they took both passports. They said that now I am a stateless person, ”the Petrozavodsky janitor Alexei Novikov became the first Russian, devoid of citizenship of his country“ for extremism ”.

And although the Constitution does not seem to provide for such an opportunity (you can’t even blame the amendments here, they did not affect this point), but the simple person Novikov suddenly found himself in the skin of Soviet dissidents. The only difference is that his name is not familiar to anyone, and he cannot go anywhere - the form of certificate of personality of a state of state of citizenship for crossing the border has not yet been approved.

So Novikov has not yet been sent, he was simply rubbed from the face of the country.

What does the law say

Part 3 of Art. 6 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation:

"A citizen of the Russian Federation cannot be deprived of his citizenship or the right to change it."

Part 1 Art. 22 Federal Law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation":

“If, when applying to the citizenship of the Russian Federation or the recovery of citizenship, the applicant did not intention to bear the responsibilities established by law, and the purpose of acquiring citizenship was to carry out the threat of the basics of the constitutional order, the decision to acquire citizenship is also subject to cancellation on the basis of a report by the appropriately false information regarding the obligation to comply with the Constitution and legislation.”

The quoted clause in the law “On Citizenship” appeared recently - in July 2017 and then was almost not seen.

Meanwhile, very specific articles were included in the law, according to which the passport will be taken (for crimes, preparation or attempt to them).

Between the terrorist attacks, sabotage, theft of aircraft and the encroachment on the life of statesmen, the organization and participation in the extremist community, as well as the financing of extremism, were hidden.

Judging by the processes of the “network” and “new greatness” ( prohibited in Russia ), it is these articles that can be applied arbitrarily in order to persecute political opponents or just for the new star on someone’s uniform.

Sometimes the case is really in politics - it was recognized as extremist and is banned in Russia “Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people” - sometimes not in it at all: a similar fate befell “Jehovah's Witnesses”.

An amendment to the law allows anyone who will be sentenced to prayers in the wrong place or lunch at McDonalds with the wrong people, to deprive citizenship. Even if you are not an immigrant at all, who has recently acquired a passport of the Russian Federation, but the indigenous “Soviet man”.

Alexey Novikov is just a Soviet person. Born in Ukrainian Sumy, studied in Kaliningrad, from there was drafted into the army, then settled in Petrozavodsk. On the territory of the RSFSR, and then Russia has been living since 1987. He, I repeat, is so that Soviet so that the book with the coat of arms sailed into the misery of the country did not immediately change, but only in 2005.

He has nothing to do with the believers in the USSR, just his hands did not reach: the state bodies, where had to contact, had no questions, the police, too, lived. Only when he was going to marry a second time, he remembered - and finally received the same book, only with a two -headed eagle on the cover. And he did not violate anything at the same time: according to the decree of the federal government, the deadline for the exchange of passports of the USSR citizen in Russia was extended until December 31, 2005.

But there is a nuance: “Soviet” citizens living in Russia until July 1, 2002 acquired citizenship of the Russian Federation in the order of recognition, automatically. With the entry into force of the Federal Law “On Citizenship of the Russian Federation”, this procedure has ceased: the procedure remained the same, but began to be called the provision of citizenship in a simplified manner.

The keyword is “provision”. If until 2002 the state recognized the right of the population to be its citizens and, as it were, fulfilled their will, then since 2002 it became the right to provide - to bestow. And the granted can be taken.

Alexey lost his passports on May 12. The state stated that Novikov does not have a “sustainable legal connection with the Russian Federation”, and “civil law relations with individual citizens of the Russian Federation can also be implemented in the status of a stateless person”.

“Separate connections” are a wife, relatives, work, 33 years of life.

To implement these “connections”, according to officials in uniform, Novikov will be remotely: the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs states that it is no longer a citizen of Novikov should leave Russia within 15 days after the abolition of quarantine restrictions.

For the family, this is not just a trouble, this is a tragedy: the wife of Alexei (no one has deprived her of citizenship, but also the question of whether she has a follow for her husband) in Russia an old mother who needs care. And there, in a new place - they obviously become Ukraine, the citizenship of which Novikov can theoretically claim by birth right - there are neither relatives nor relatives.

There are no savings for a sudden move: Novikov’s accounts have long been blocked, he, as already mentioned, was included in the Rosfinmonitoring list. On June 22, the court refused to Alexei in an attempt to challenge the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

I will remind him of any other citizenship, except for Russian, so it’s even interesting to understand the bureaucratic logic: where is they thinking of sending it - really in the USSR?

The criminal case, because of which the Novikov family leaves the country,, unfortunately, is quite typical.

In April 2016, he made a careless repost on VKontakte, which he soon deleted. Speech in the publication of ISIS ( the organization banned in Russia ), Palmyra and the "destroyed industry of the USSR".

A month later, at the exit of Petrozavodsk (I wanted to visit my mother in Ukraine), Novikov was detained. According to him, they were tortured by a stouter shker (evidence - an act of medical examination, where the electrical injuries were recorded, he then presented in court).

Under torture, Novikov showed that he was going to fight in Syria on the side of the militants. Later, the lawyer for the appointment promised him a conditional term for recognition. In court, Novikov refused the testimony, but was found guilty of preparing to participate in the activities of a terrorist organization and the initiation of hatred of Russians in the same repost.

One of Alexei's intentions was the marching trousers of a protective color discovered in his car - color differentiation of pants, obviously no one canceled. So it is indicated in the case: “Novikov prepared equipment - trousers designed to inconspect weapons and ammunition with an enhanced fabric belt.”

The Moscow District Military Court appointed him four years in colonies, which in appeal and after partial decriminalization of the 282 articles turned into incomplete two, to serve in Komi.

The mother never saw: she died a week after his release.

It was also not allowed to go to the funeral - they appointed additional eight years of administrative supervision.

A year after the release, passports were taken from Novikov.

“In court, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs spoke in the way that the cancellation of the decision to accept citizenship is a kind of additional punishment,” says Olga Podolova, a lawyer of “Rus' sitting”, representing Novikov’s interests in court.

-At the same time, the verdict entered into force on May 18, 2017, and amendments to the Law “On Citizenship”-September 1, 2017, and the Constitutional Court has repeatedly said that the law can only have retroactive force only if it is indicated directly in the law, and in public law relations, retroactive force is applied only in the interests of a person.

We have the exact opposite situation. But we do not know the motivation of the court yet: only the resolution of the decision was announced. Formally, the practice of canceling the decision on admission to citizenship in Russia is, but it was hitherto it was exclusively related to the error made in the documents by the applicant, or their incomplete filling. According to the new edition of the 22nd article of the Law “On Citizenship”, the Novikov case is the first. And it may well indicate the vector of the direction of this practice. ”

The Ministry of Internal Affairs assured that until September, no “power measures” would be applied to Alexei - it is obvious that they would not remove quarantine restrictions before fall. Thanks and that. However, lawyers are not sure that Novikov will easily receive Ukrainian citizenship. The criminal record in the "terrorist" article can be an obstacle.

And in this case, Alexei will remain an invisible man.

He is already in this status: even had to go to court on old driver’s rights. He seized other documents from him.