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

06 October 2014

Rakhat Aliyev applies for Cypriot citizenship Rakhat Aliyev has applied for Cypriot citizenship.

26 December 2013

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

17 December 2013

'World citizen' pioneer Garry Davis dies 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 July 2013

US Senate passes comprehensive immigration reform 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 June 2013

Putin grants France's Depardieu Russian citizenship 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 January 2013

Canada strips citizenship of alleged Nazi war criminal 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 December 2012

Nepal woman aged 105 finally granted citizenship A pensioner has been granted Nepalese citizenship more than a century after she was born in a remote village of the Himalayan nation.

06 December 2012