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Ukraine: Information on requirements that a soldier must sign a document promising not to leave the former USSR for a period of five years, including information on penalties applicable for doing so

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 September 1992
Citation / Document Symbol UKR11623
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ukraine: Information on requirements that a soldier must sign a document promising not to leave the former USSR for a period of five years, including information on penalties applicable for doing so, 1 September 1992, UKR11623, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac0e1f.html [accessed 3 June 2023]
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Information on Ukraine specific to this topic is not currently available to the IRBDC. However, information on this topic for the former Soviet Union is provided in the attached Response to Information Request SUN11444 of 17 August 1992. In addition, please find attached an excerpt from a Helsinki Watch report which provides further information on the application of legal restrictions on exit from the former USSR.

There is no further information currently available to the IRBDC on this topic.

Attachments

Helsinki Watch. August 1992. Russian Residence and Travel Restrictions. Vol. 4, No. 14. New York.

Immigration and Refugee Board Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. 17 August 1992. Response to Information Request SUN11444.

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