A draft law has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on recognizing as " This document actually gives the Russian authorities pseudo-legal arguments for interfering in the internal affairs of countries that gained independence after the collapse of.

The author of the document is a member of United Russia, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Konstantin Zatulin.

The document states that “compatriots” are all people and their descendants who live in other countries and speak Russian. Many of the language in the document is vague. One of them, for example, says that “compatriots” can be recognized as all those who “historically live on the territory of Russia, as well as those who made a free choice in favor of spiritual, cultural and legal ties” with the Russian Federation.

The explanatory note to the bill says that knowledge of the Russian language is “a necessary condition for meeting the constitutional requirement for the state to ensure the all-Russian cultural identity of compatriots living abroad”.

The bill also proposes to clarify the list of peoples living and living in the Russian Federation.

This list includes:.

- state-forming people (Russians);

- representatives of the Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples, \;

- representatives of the peoples living in the respective national-territorial formations on the territory of the Russian Federation;

- representatives of indigenous peoples included in the Unified List of Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 24. 03. 2000. No. 255;

- representatives of other " The list of peoples historically residing on the territory of the Russian Federation, for the purposes of this law, is formed from the indicated groups and approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Amendments are made to clause 3 of article 1 and paragraph seven of article 2 of the federal law " However, it should be noted that in paragraph 3 of the current article 1 of the law there is no mention of knowledge of the Russian language.

However, Article 1 states that compatriots are already persons “born in one state, living or living in it and having signs of a common language, history, cultural heritage, traditions and customs, as well as descendants of these persons in a direct descending line”.

The document notes that “the federal law enters into force after 180 days from the date of official publication, necessary for the preparation of regulations ensuring its application”.

The document does not explain the concept of " With a broad interpretation, we can also talk about Poland and Finland, which were part of the Russian Empire.