Prohibition of Deprivation of Citizenship as a Guarantee of the Constitutional Rights of Russian Citizens

This dissertation is devoted to citizenship, as well as a number of important aspects related to it. The institute of citizenship is considered by the author through the prism of the legal status of a person. This approach is relatively new, but some constitutionalists have studied citizenship from this point of view. The purpose of the dissertation research is to consider the prohibition of deprivation of citizenship in the constitutional law of Russia as a guarantee of the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens. To achieve this goal, the author sets a number of tasks, including: 1. Research of the grounds for the loss and deprivation of citizenship over various historical periods with different forms of the state; 2. Identification of the relationship of deprivation of citizenship with the principles of a constitutional state, the priority of human and civil rights and freedoms, with high international standards for the protection of human rights; 3. Assessment of legislative innovations of the last few years at the institute of cancellation on issues of citizenship of the Russian Federation. The author made conclusions about the institute of deprivation of citizenship, as taking origin in the initially illegal institute of expulsion from society, deprivation of citizenship is able to comply with the principle of proportionality only under the condition of strict legislative regulation, but in conditions of international legal obligations of states, deprivation of citizenship violates the principle of equal citizenship, discriminating bipatrides. Based on the analysis of legislative innovations of 2017 into the law on Russian citizenship, it was concluded that the changes allow for the actual deprivation of citizenship, and in a particularly harsh form of revocation of citizenship, which contradicts the constitutional prohibition of deprivation of citizenship.