Kyiv ignored the demand of the Verkhovna Rada deputy from the faction of the Popular Front Yuri Berezi to automatically deprive Ukrainian documents of all residents of the "occupied territories" who received Russian passports. The reason for this was explained by the political scientist Alexander Dudchak. In Nezalezhnoye they do not hurry to take Ukrainian citizenship from Crimeans, since it allows the authorities to talk about a large number of their fellow citizens on the peninsula, he said in an interview with the "Free Press". "According to the law, multiple citizenship in Ukraine is not prohibited, so that neither they say inattentively reading the Constitution, in which in art.. 4 it is written: "In Ukraine there is a single citizenship", that is, the presence of another citizenship in a person who is in Ukraine is not recognized by the Ukrainian authorities (but not punishable), he is considered a citizen of Ukraine, and this is a problem solely Ukrainian authorities, "added expert. And the residents of Nezalezhnaya, who have some other citizenship, usually do not care what the authorities of Ukraine think about them, said Dudchak. As for the withdrawal from citizenship, in a neighboring country this procedure is not so simple. Therefore, many who have received passports of the Russian Federation or other states do not want to spend time and money on this, the political scientist said.. And besides, citizenship, as a rule, involves personal problems - property, opportunities to see relatives, receive pensions and other. Meanwhile, the dispute in Ukraine continues about whether it is worth to deprive some residents of Donbass and Crimea of ??citizenship, if they received Russian documents.