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Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would be glad to grant a request for Russian citizenship from US boxer Roy Jones Jr as the multiple world champion visited Russian-annexed Crimea.

• 20 августа 2015, 11:23

Kazakhstani tennis player Sesil Karatantcheva who is now capped for Kazakhstan has decided to return her Bulgarian citizenship.

• 06 октября 2014, 17:43

Rakhat Aliyev has applied for Cypriot citizenship.

• 26 декабря 2013, 12:26

Rakhat Aliyev intends to obtain the citizenship of Cyprus: German lawyer Lothar de Maiziere.

• 17 декабря 2013, 14:19

Peace activist Garry Davis, who dramatically renounced his US citizenship in the dark days of the Cold War and founded a government for self-declared "world citizens" like himself, has died.

• 30 июля 2013, 16:18

In a vote hailed by US President Barack Obama, the Senate on Thursday passed comprehensive immigration reform that would put 11 million undocumented people on a path to earning citizenship.

• 29 июня 2013, 10:38

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted fast-track citizenship to France's Gerard Depardieu after the movie star complained about the French Socialist government's proposed 75 percent tax on the rich.

• 04 января 2013, 11:34

Canada has stripped citizenship from a Ukrainian-born man it is seeking to deport for alleged ties to a Nazi killing squad in World War II.

• 31 декабря 2012, 10:23

A pensioner has been granted Nepalese citizenship more than a century after she was born in a remote village of the Himalayan nation.

• 06 декабря 2012, 11:56