INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia stripped prominent climate activist Arshak Makichyan of his Russian citizenship Monday, according to a post on his Instagram
page."The Russian state has deprived me of my only citizenship," the activist, who is currently living in exile in Germany, wrote on
week that Makichyan had provided false information about himself when applying for his Russian citizenship in 2004, despite being just 10
said in a graphic posted to Instagram that the ruling now leaves him stateless.Makichyan and his wife were forced to flee Russia amid
crackdowns on anti-war voices
lawyers, who claim the move is a deliberate attempt to silence Kremlin critics."It will be a long time before we all have to make sense of
country that will be a place for us all, not just for bloodthirsty murderers who belong in prison."
