Issue 4269. Last Updated: 11/07/2009

Onishchenko Stands Up for His South Ossetian Passport

The Moscow Times
Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief sanitary inspector, defended his decision to accept citizenship in another country Thursday, although he admitted that it was against Russian law for government officials to have double nationality.

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