The LPR is ready to organize voting in the Russia's legislative elections for those residents of the Republic who have Russian passports, LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik said within the framework of the Great Russian Word XIV International Festival in Crimea.
"If the decision is adopted (to organize casting ballot for LPR residents holding Russian IDs) we will of course organize everything to make the elections possible and well-organized," he said.
Legislative elections will be held in Russia on September 19, 2021. At stake are 450 seats in the State Duma of the 8th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly.
Russia has granted citizenship to 215,000 LPR residents.
On April, 24, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree easing citizenship rules for residents of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic. The first centre for LPR residents seeking Russian citizenship opened in Lugansk on May 6.
On April 24, 2020, Putin signed the law exempting Donbass Republics residents from paying the state fee for conferment of citizenship.
The first LPR residents received Russian passports under a simplified procedure on June 14, 2019. By the end of January 2021, the number of Donbass residents who obtained Russian passports had exceeded 400,000. *t
