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I honestly don't know, I remember someone got trapped at an airport once because their country stopped existing while they were there

You become stateless, and it’s a legal nightmare. Most countries won’t deport you, because they have nowhere to deport you to. But some countries like Australia will detain you until you get citizenship elsewhere. Sort of a catch-22, where you need to apply for citizenship to get out of prison, but can’t because no country wants to grant you citizenship because you’re in prison. The act of being stateless in itself isn’t a crime, but living somewhere without a visa is, and some countries (like Australia) don’t automatically grant visas to stateless people without some other reason like a refugee application.

Prior to the 60’s, it used to be much more common, because most countries use a legal concept called Jus Sanguinis, which basically means that citizenship gets passed from parents to children via birth. America, on the other hand, uses something called Jus Soli, which grants citizenship based on you being born in the country. But if the parents aren’t eligible to pass their citizenship on and the country they’re in doesn’t practice Jus Soli, then the child would be stateless. Back in the 60’s, most Jus Sanguinis countries agreed at a convention to provide emergency citizenship to individuals who would otherwise be born stateless.

These days, the largest causes are typically financial/records keeping issues in third world countries, or are due to politics like you’re describing. In the former, imagine a Jus Sanguinis country where you need to prove who your parents are. But they don’t have copies of their birth certificates or your birth certificate, and you don’t have money to get new ones. There’s also an administrative fee when you try to file the paperwork, and you can’t afford it. In the latter, it’s often due to good old fashioned racism. Certain ethnic groups being denied citizenship (like the Uyghur Muslims in China, or the Koreans in Japan following world war 2.) It’s also commonly due to authoritarian governments stripping citizenship for arbitrary reasons like you’ve mentioned. Russia isn’t the first to strip citizenship; It’s also common in parts of the Middle East.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness

Wait, you are trans and in Russia? That seems like reason enough to flee, I wouldn‘t wait until they become aware enough of you to strip your citizenship. Maybe Finland would be ok: https://en.seta.fi/human-rights-support/asylum-for-the-lgbt-and-activists/

Good luck, I hope you will be safe.

You should still be able to apply for refugee, asylum, permanent residency, or citizenship in other places. Whether or not that's realustica and feasible is another issue, but legally, you're fine: Your citizenship status at home won't affect your ability to seek a new home.

Russia is not part of the UN convention that forbids making a person stateless, but I don’t think that would have mattered anyway.

As a stateless person, you can seek asylum in almost any European country.

Found this article from a US gov't site that talks a lot about this, kind of interesting to read.

You can get Brazilian citizenship if you are statelessness, here's an article about it . Iirc, you can do this from anywhere on the world, but doing it from inside brazillian territory would make it easier.

What happens is that you become a stateless person, just like the Palestinians once where. I can't speak for Russian law.

This is a webpage from a guy who voluntarily because stateless. https://identityunknown.org/3e7/Introduction_A_series_of_life_experiences_by_Glen_Lee_Roberts_before_and_after_he_became_Voluntarily_Stateless

God, I honestly hope they revoke mine. Come what may, I don't think the general opinion about Russians will change any time soon.

If your home country revokes your rights as a citizen, I would imagine that it gives you justification to claim refugee status with the UN.

You'll want to read up on Shamima Begum. She's currently stateless right now. Here's another article from Time if you want more information. Though her case is a bit different since she's a terrorist

What happens is The Terminal, staring Tom Hanks :P

Why should life be over?

There are just some rights that you don't have anymore. Some duties, too.

International human rights organizations

Maybe be comw a fugitive and leave

They did not want to think it through for they didn't care.

I mean, in Russia, anything is possible, but in any country that respects the rule of law, you're a citizen if you pay taxes.