Third section

B. Regulation on the Examination of Issues Related to Citizenship of the 
Russian Federation (adopted by Presidential Decree no. 1325 of 
14 November 2002)
34. Section 54 of the Regulation, as in force at the material time, 
specified the procedure for annulment of a decision on Russian citizenship. 
The relevant part it reads as follows:
“... The form of the annulment decision (
заключение
 
об
 
отмене
 
решения
 
по
 
вопросам
 
гражданства
 
Российской
 
Федерации
) shall comply with the form 
approved by the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation or by the Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. It must contain information about the 
legal basis for the [impugned decision on Russian citizenship]; information about the 
court’s decision establishing a legal fact of the use of falsified documents or false 
information knowingly submitted by the applicant to acquire or terminate his or her 
Russian citizenship; a description of the circumstances established by a court; and 
reference to the relevant section of the Russian Citizenship Act which serves as a legal 
basis for the annulment of a previously taken decision on Russian citizenship.”
35. Presidential Decree no. 398 of 17 June 2020 amended section 54 of 
the Regulation. It provided that a decision to annul citizenship had to be 
reasoned and had to describe the circumstances which had been taken into 
consideration by the competent authority. The relevant part of the amended 
provision in its relevant part reads as follows:
“... [The annulment decision] ... shall be reasoned. It must contain information about 
the legal basis for the [impugned decision on Russian citizenship], as well as 
information about a legal basis for the annulment of the decision on Russian 
citizenship accompanied by a description of the circumstances which led to its 
adoption.”