I’m interested in how that works - is it much like how NIrish residents can get it through having had previous generations of relatives in the Republic..?
If you can prove your ancestors(up to great-grandparents, or grandparents if they willingly relinquished it) had Romanian citizenship(which during the inter-war period, also meant being born in today's Moldova, some parts of Ukraine and Bulgaria) you're entitled to regain it. Though given the soviets' efforts to russify the region a sizeable chunk of the population is not eligible.
I don’t even know how Cyprus manages that (presumably they’re just not in Schengen?),
Cypurs is not in schengen and until the Northern Cyprus dispute ends probably never will. Not sure about how cypriot citizenship works in that circumstance, if it's more like Romania or more like the baltics(where russian minorities who didn't go through naturalization are granted non-citizen passports that bars them from any EU rights they might be entitled to if they had full citizenship).
If you can prove your ancestors(up to great-grandparents, or grandparents if they willingly relinquished it) had Romanian citizenship(which during the inter-war period, also meant being born in today's Moldova, some parts of Ukraine and Bulgaria) you're entitled to regain it. Though given the soviets' efforts to russify the region a sizeable chunk of the population is not eligible.
Cypurs is not in schengen and until the Northern Cyprus dispute ends probably never will. Not sure about how cypriot citizenship works in that circumstance, if it's more like Romania or more like the baltics(where russian minorities who didn't go through naturalization are granted non-citizen passports that bars them from any EU rights they might be entitled to if they had full citizenship).
Huh, TIL!
I didn’t know any of that (I should have, about Cyprus at least, but I didn’t). Thanks!
All very complicated…
The Soviets’ tendency to move ethnic groups around at will obviously contributes to that…
I guess what you say about the Baltics applies also to the Russkies that stayed in Poland, East Germany, etc., after 1991..?
Honestly, this is all definitely interesting, but I guess I haven’t thought about it in detail before…
The only Russians I met in Sweden presumably had citizenship (as they owned property), lol.
Are you Romanian then? Definitely an interesting part of the world!