So, the most famous personalities included in the list to get Russian citizenship He was Brazilian footballers and a French journalist.
Zenit forward Malcolm has been in St. He plays for St. Petersburg. During this time, he appeared in 98 games for the team and scored 29 goals. Before that, he played for Catalan “Barcelona”, French “Bordeaux” and Brazilian “Corinthians”, from which he graduated from the academy.
He played for the Brazilian national team under 20 and the Brazilian Olympic team, where he won a gold medal in 2020. In total, he played 24 matches for the national team and scored three goals, one of which allowed the Brazilians to take Olympic gold.
Midfielder Claudinho has been in St. He plays for the St. Petersburg club. During this time, he managed to play 50 games and score 13 goals. As a Corinthians graduate, he played for Brazilian clubs. He took the Brazilian Golden Ball in 2020 and became the top scorer in the championship with 18 balls in his possession.
Like Malcolm, he was part of the 2020 Olympic team, where he won the tournament in Tokyo.
Earlier, in an interview with “Championship”, Andrei Arshavin, a former player of “Zenith” and the Russian national team, expressed his surprise about citizenship for Malcolm and Claudinho.
“I have no idea why Malcolm and Claudinho were given Russian passports. I agree with this decision. Do I believe they will play for the Russian national team one day? Anything is possible”,
Arshavin said.
On February 20, the Russian Football Union announced that there is a theoretical possibility that football players will no longer be considered legionnaires and will be able to participate in matches for the Russian national team. To do this, Malcolm needs to change his sports citizenship through the chamber on the status of the FIFA football court. Claudinho does not need to appeal to authority, as he does not take part in official matches for the national team under the auspices of the organization. They noted that the right to play for the national team cannot be obtained after the expiration of 5 years of residence in the Russian Federation and before 2026 due to the absence of matches for the Brazilian national team during this period. RFU recorded. According to current regulations, until then players will be considered legionnaires.
On September 20, 2022, the Zenit press service announced that Malcolm and Claudinho wanted to obtain Russian citizenship. According to the club, the initiative was taken by the players themselves.
“Malcolm and Claudinho really wanted to get Russian citizenship, it’s their personal initiative. They asked the club to advise them on this matter and we have sent appropriate letters of intent from our players to the RFU and the Ministry of Sport,” he said.
French commando in Donbass
Böke is a former French soldier serving in the rifle units of the French army. In Donetsk, he works as a military expert on NATO weapons of the DPR representation. He is also involved in voluntary matters – he is engaged in the supply of medicines to children’s hospitals and other humanitarian aid.
The French became the first Western volunteer to openly claim that the events related to the execution of civilians in Bucha were a provocation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As part of a group of Western journalists, he described how he arrived in Bucha after the Russian troops had left. According to him, at first there were no bodies on the roads when the car with them drove through the streets of the city. The next time they crossed the same road, there were already bodies on the side of the road.
She claimed that she was harassed in France after describing the events in the Kiev region in her own style. Specifically, he was kicked out of a TV show or denied interviews.
At the end of September 2022, Böke was attacked in Istanbul, during which he received numerous cut wounds. The volunteer believes he was attacked by SBU agents.
In May 2022, Bke spoke on SudRadio about the horrors he witnessed during a humanitarian trip to Ukraine. According to him, the Western media does not report on “the atrocities of the Ukrainian army: torture and killing of civilians”. Bke was also shocked when, according to RIA Novosti, fighters from Azov (an organization banned in Russia) carried emblems on their uniforms, which allegedly repeated the emblems on the uniforms of German Nazis.
On January 11, 2023, Böke announced that he had applied for Russian citizenship. On January 16, Irina Volk, representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that the agency is ready to consider the issue of regulating the legal status of the French journalist Boke in Russia. She noted that a decision on Böke’s request would be made “taking into account the available information that the journalist was persecuted for an active pro-Russian position”.
Other new citizens
Almost nothing is known about the new Russian passport holders, except for their place and date of birth.
I was able to find out that Ian Patrick Storey, born in 1979, joined the Moscow charity “Running Hearts” in 2017. He covered the distance of 21.1 km in 1 hour 35 minutes 38 seconds, taking 73rd in the overall ranking.
Also, a person by this name is the principal of a secondary school at The International School of Moscow, located in Krylatskoye. according to the information area Storey is a linguist with a science degree from the University of Bradford. His employee card says that Storey is a big music lover and learned to play the ukulele.
The presidential decree also welcomed the applications of four people to renounce their citizenship. Among them is Pautov Mikhail Dmitrievich, born in 1971. According to information obtained from the website of Samizdat magazine, Mikhail Pautov is a person pretending to be an alien agent. Pautov’s novel, stories and other works are also published here. According to Roskomsvoboda (the organization is included in the list of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice), Pautov was fined 30,000 rubles for discrediting the RF Armed Forces.