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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Niko Vorobyov

Russia strips protester and his family of citizenship

Fridays for Future Russia activist Arshak Makichyan, holding a sign, looks on during the movement's climate strike in front of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters in Berlin, Germany [File: Christian Mang/Reuters]

Russia has stripped an anti-war activist and his family of their citizenship, rendering them stateless – a move that may mark a new way of suppressing dissent.

After five months of legal proceedings, a judge in the Shatura city court, in the Moscow region, decided on Monday that 27-year-old Arshak Makichyan’s citizenship was invalid, along with that of his father and two brothers.

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