Moscow - Crimean residents who turn down Russian citizenship will have to apply for residence permits if they want to stay in the republic, the Federal Migration Service said.
“They will have to apply for residence permits and to stay where they are living now. There will be no big legal problems,” Federal Migration Service deputy head Sergei Kalyuzhny told a press conference in Moscow on March 24.
Crimean residents who choose not to become citizens of Russia shall notify the authorities about that within a month, he said.
