2 July 2003 MOSCOW, Russia–Viktor Vasilievich Glotov, living in Skhodna in the Moscow region, cannot exchange his old Soviet internal passport for a new Russian one. Even though he was born in Kuibishev (now Samara) and spent the greatest part of his life studying and working in Leningrad, the passport office doesn’t recognize him as a citizen. From 1984 until […]

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