"Ryska passen i Sydossetien är inte riktiga pass"

Enligt bloggen Eternal Remont så är de pass som getts ut i Sydossetien inte riktiga ryska pass, utan en slags resedokument för att resa inom Ryssland. Detta ska ha skildrats i ett reportage på nyhetskanalen Al-Jazeera.

Al Jazerra's camera accidently answers what no one -- and I mean no one -- in Washington has confirmed. The Russian passports are actually "propiska" (internal documents) rather than "mezhdunarodnye" (international). This means the "Medvedev Doctine" might as well be handing out memberships to the Hair Club for Men, or the Mickey Mouse Club, for all the legitimacy it has before international law. Either way, Russia is not minting new citizens of the Russian Federation.

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