Lithuania Drafts Law to Strip Citizenship After Abramovich Report

Lithuania said it’s drafting legislation that will allow more people to be stripped of citizenship after it was reported that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich passed on some of his wealth to two of his children who had passports from the Baltic nation just weeks before he was sanctioned.

The proposal would allow Lithuania, a staunch supporter of Ukraine, to revoke citizenship on the grounds of a threat to national security, including for those who have acquired their passports on the basis of descent. The country grants citizenship to descendants of individuals who held it before 1940.