Particularities of the right to citizenship in national regulations and comparative law. Summary of the doctoral thesis.

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ANNOTATION. DARI Victoria, „Particularities of the right to citizenship in national regulations and comparative law”, PhD thesis, Chisinau, 2021. THESIS STRUCTURE: introduction, four chapters, general conclusions and recommendations, 163 pages of basic text, bibliography of 188 titles. The obtained results are published in 7 scientific papers. THESIS’S GOAL AND OBJECTIVES: The work’s goal involves analyzing the degree of research on the issue of the right to citizenship as a fundamental right of the person in the literature of the Republic of Moldova and other states, how to acquire this right, which not only establishes a person's membership in a state, but also the fact that this person enjoys all the rights and obligations enshrined in the Constitution. Achieving the proposed goal involves identifying reservations to increase the degree of direct applicability of constitutional rules in the process of realizing this fundamental right, including by streamlining access to social security, acquired by obtaining the right to citizenship of a state; research of the system for regulating the guarantees of the right to citizenship, against the background of determining its component elements; highlighting the role of international practice in ensuring the proper application of guarantees of the right to citizenship. Studying the institution of the right to citizenship, its guarantees and limits, as elements of constitutional law, subjecting to expertise the compatibility of national and international constitutional limits in the field of protection of the right to citizenship with the rules of the ECHR Convention and ECtHR case law, arguing changes to adjust rules national to international ones. SCIENTIFIC NOVELTY AND AUTHENTICITY: Scientific problem solved lies in identifying the gaps, as well as the constitutional elements of regulation and legal protection of the right to citizenship, multiple citizenship in the Republic of Moldova, which determined the substantiation of interventions modeled on the advanced experiences of European states, with proposals for completion of the norms that provide for the acquisition of citizenship, as well as the right to hold more citizens with direct impact on the realization of social guarantees of this fundamental right, completion or extension of the scope of guarantees established at constitutional level.