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The Conflict Observatory released a new report on Wednesday that found that Russia has promulgated a series of laws to accelerate the application process for Russian citizenship while simultaneously penalizing those who did not apply for citizenship in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. The report detailed how Russia’s forced “passportisation” involves two parts: de jure passportisation [...]