As former citizens of the USSR are trying to expel to a country that no longer After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, its former citizens continued to live with Soviet passports, but from the beginning of the zero they were declared invalid, and in 2002 a law on foreign citizens appeared, thanks to which people born in the USSR and living in the territory of the current Russian Federation without new passports began to be considered stateless persons (LBG), or Apatrid.