29 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Roman’s father was a Yugoslav citizen and his mother was a citizen of the former USSR. Early in his life, his mother took Roman to Russia to live with his grandmother, and abandoned him. Before he reached legal maturity (which would have enabled him to have access to an ID), his grandmother died and he started to wander around Europe without any personal documents. He lived the sad life of a person whose identity was never recognised and he left this world alone, with no single manifestation of recognition of his human dignity. ABOUT ROMAN (DECEASED), STATELESS IN SLOVAKIA