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President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that facilitates the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for foreign specialists. The document is published at the official Internet portal of legal information.
According to the document, the period of seniority required to apply for citizenship of the Russian Federation is reduced from three years to a year.
New rules will take effect in three months. They apply to the professions included to the special list drawn up by the government.
The list includes a variety of professions - doctors and other health care professionals, engineers, information security experts, workers and other specialties. The bill will provide foreigners a possibility to link the future with Russia, and the country will be given the opportunity to bring qualified personnel to various sectors of the economy, especially the technological sphere.
The draft law was prepared as part of the execution of the instructions of the head of state. They were compiled after last year's program Straight Line with Vladimir Putin.
Russkiy Mir
reported that the law is aimed at attracting high-class specialists to Russia from abroad in those areas that are necessary for the Russian economy. In addition, it helps speed up the process of granting Russian citizenship to a large number of Russian-speaking specialists from the countries of the former Soviet Union.
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