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A comment on Estonia: Become an E-Resident. Parent comment

Re:Estonia: Become an E-Resident by krn on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:39PM (#33643509)
> I understand you are used to it, but it's really bad optics from the outside. How can there be people in their 30s without a citizenship?

Technically, Estonia is not the successor state of the USSR, Russia is. If a person was born in the USSR, and only speaks the official language of the successor state of the USSR, then that person should probably be a Russian citizen, not Estonian.

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Re:Estonia: Become an E-Resident by bitL on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:54PM (#33643749)
"Technically, Slovakia is not the successor state of Czechoslovakia, Czechia is. If a person was born in Czechoslovakia, and only speaks the official language of the successor state of Czechoslovakia, then that person should probably be a Czech citizen, not Slovak."
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Re:Estonia: Become an E-Resident by krn on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:05PM (#33643918)
> Most varieties of Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible, forming a dialect continuum (spanning the intermediate Moravian dialects) rather than being two clearly distinct languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech%E2%80%93Slovak_languages

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