ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fabian Burkhardt

Fabian Burkhardt is a postdoctoral Research Associate in the political science research group at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, Germany.

POSTS BY Fabian Burkhardt

23 März 2022

Elia Bescotti, Fabian Burkhardt, Maryna Rabinovych, Cindy Wittke

Passportization

Putin’s alleged arguments to conduct a “special military operation” to “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine revolve around protecting the people of the Donbas, including citizens of the Russian Federation, “facing humiliation and genocide.” One of the tools Russia used to justify its political and military engagement in the post-Soviet space has been passportization. This policy effectively created Russian citizens in the contested territories of neighbouring states in the context of protracted conflicts of secession. Just as in Georgia, passportization worked as a tool of interference with Ukrainian sovereignty. Continue reading >>

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