Vice Speaker of State Duma Alexander Zhukov said on the first channel in the program "Posner" that the Russian government had prepared a draft law which will enable all citizens of the former USSR to acquire Russian citizenship but not only ethnic Russian and Ukrainians as it was before.
ITAR-TASS reports that the plan to give citizenship to all for whom Russian is the mother tongue, and who had / have relatives living on the territory of the former Soviet Union.