ABSTRACT
Introduction When we think about the concept of citizenship, which is certainly a fundamental political category, we immediately discover the following ambiguity. According to the standard definition, citizenship is a legally codified relationship between individual and state, a relationship that determines the rights and duties of individuals with respect to the state. However, it is obvious at the same time that such a definition is far from sufficient, for it omits what is perhaps the most important aspect of the problem of citizenship, which can be reduced neither to a legal formula nor to the factual description of its implementation under given historical and political circumstances.
