What happens if you lose all citizenship?

Yulia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 208 points –

This godforsaken country is introducing the bill that allows to strip people of birth-given russian citizenship for some things - like desertion and discreditation of army (which happens every time you question war)

So, my question, if someone loses all citizenship, what happens next? Is their life basically over? Is there a way to re-gain citizenship (like, in another country)? Can they be deported?

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What happens is that you become a stateless person, just like the Palestinians once where. I can't speak for Russian law.

Many palestinians are still stateless world wide around 5 million persons.

That's still true for a lot of druze I the Golan heights, and while it doesn't have a drastic effect on their daily lives, traveling abroad is an absolute nightmare