Meeting of Commission for Citizenship Issues 2012-12-11 17:00:00 Moscow Presidential Aide Yevgeny Shkolov held a meeting of the Commission for Citizenship Issues. The meeting participants heard a report by the Education and Science Ministry on drafting statutes and regulations that would govern the obtaining by educational institutions and organisations abroad of a permit to conduct state test of Russian as a foreign language for citizens of foreign nations. The meeting also discussed issues of granting Russian Federation citizenship. In addition, suggestions by the Foreign Ministry on amending Part 1 of Article 14 of the Federal Law On Russian Federation Citizenship and issues pertaining to implementing legislation on citizenship were discussed.