Dobrynin's Lawyer: Siberians Will Not Be Able To Obtain British Citizenship

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The Queen of Great Britain granted the businessman and philanthropist Yevgeny Lebedev a lifelong peerage of Great Britain and awarded him the title of Baron of Hampton and Siberia. Thus, since November 19, Yevgeny Lebedev has been a member of the House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament. Evgeny Lebedev is the son of Aleksandr Lebedev, an officer of the KGB of the USSR, businessman and shareholder of Novaya Gazeta. Lebedev Jr. was born in Moscow, but spent most of his life in the UK, having received British citizenship 10 years ago. He is the owner of The Independent and The Evening Standard. Also, Evgeny Lebedev has long been friends with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recommended him to Queen Elizabeth II as a peerage candidate. Johnson's critics saw signs of corruption in this, as Lebedev's publications actively supported him politically. But let the British deal with this, while the Russians have found another turn in this story. A native Siberian phoned the editorial office of "Interlocutor" and asked: "If the Queen of Britain can legally grant a Russian the title of Baron of Siberia, can I, as a subject of Baron Lebedev, now apply for British citizenship in order to be reunited with my overlord?" We forwarded this question to Konstantin Dobrynin, State Secretary of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers and senior partner of the Pen & Paper Bar. - Is it theoretically possible? Considering that there is case law in the UK. - Firstly, it is still worth rejoicing for Mr. Lebedev, not so often lately Russian surnames in Britain, and more broadly in the Euro-Atlantic world, sound in a positive, albeit somewhat strange for Russian perception, context. And Mr. Lebedev will now need a fair sense of self-irony to remain himself, becoming a peer and even a Baron of Siberia. With all my sincere respect for both of these important titles. And secondly, I have to upset the Siberians worried about the "prospect" - Baron Siberian has no subjects, even if the Siberians themselves wanted to become them with the aim of naturalization in Great Britain. Baron Lebedev did not become the Siberian Baron in the Russian-speaking sense, there is some translation inaccuracy here. From the point of view of the English language "Baron of Siberia" means the place of origin of the bearer of the title. Yes, Evgeny Lebedev was born in Moscow, but the irony is that it is impossible to become a Baron of Moscow! In order to be called Baron of Moscow, he would have had to coordinate this with Moscow, which seems problematic. Therefore, the Baron of Siberia. According to British rules, the titles of peers must contain an indication of a particular locality. Apparently, the Heraldic Chamber of Great Britain did not have any difficulties with agreeing on the use of the toponym "Siberia". Siberia is also Russia, like Moscow, so there are no contradictions here. From Zimbabwe to Yeltsin's Russia: how and where the English queen travels