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called for the international community to establish a "Free Russia passport". In his words, this passport should be issued to Russian emigrants provided they sign a declaration "which sets out the key principles for a Ukrainian victory and a Russia without Putin". In the essay, he compared his idea
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within the League of Nations. At that point the passport no longer included a reference to the 1922 conference, but were issued in the name of the League. The office was closed in 1938; passports were thereafter issued by a new agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees under the
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While Nansen passports are no longer issued, existing national and supranational authorities, including the United Nations, issue travel documents for stateless people and refugees, including
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refugees. Approximately 450,000 Nansen passports were provided to stateless people and refugees who needed travel documents, but could not obtain one from a national authority.
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New York University Department of Media, Culture, and Communication's Media Archaeology's Dead Media Archive
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The precipitating event for the Nansen passport was the 1921 announcement by the new government of the
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in Geneva from July 3, 1922, to July 5, 1922, in his role as High Commissioner for Refugees for the
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The front cover of a Nansen passport (green stripe), written in French, the diplomatic language
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revoking the citizenship of Russians living abroad, including some 800,000 refugees from the
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to the legacy of the Nansen passport, although he stressed the comparison is imperfect.
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Following Nansen's death in 1930, the passport was handled by the
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In 1924, the Nansen arrangement was broadened to also include
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In a 2024 essay, the chess grandmaster and Russian dissident
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Arkivverket.no (in Norwegian), retrieved December 11, 2012
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Index

Nansen passports

League of Nations
Stateless
refugees
refugee travel documents
League of Nations
stateless
refugees
Fridtjof Nansen
World War I
significant turmoil
Soviet Union
Russian Civil War
Fridtjof Nansen
League of Nations
Armenian
Assyrian
Bulgarian
Turkish
Nansen International Office for Refugees
Nansen passport cover; Police office, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1930
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Nansen passport renewal stamp; Nansen International Office for Refugees, 1930
Nansen International Office for Refugees
Memorial plaque (partial view); outside wall, City Hall, Oslo, Norway, 2007
City Hall
Oslo
Norway

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