THE PROBLEM OF STATELESSNESS IN UKRAINE AND THE WAYS OF ADDRESSING IT Table of contents I. Introduction 4 II. Statelessness in Ukraine: general review of the situation 6 III. Categories of stateless persons in Ukraine III.1 Persons who entered Ukraine with the 1974 standard exUSSR citizen passports or birth certificates, and persons born in the territory of Ukraine after 13 November 1991 who did not acquire effective citizenship 15 15 III.2 Stateless persons who immigrated to Ukraine 21 III.3 Formerly deported peopleand their descendants who returned to Ukraine 23 III.4 Persons granted the refugee status in Ukraine 24 III.5 Representatives of Roma community in Ukraine 25 III.6 Homeless and stray persons 30 III.7 Convicts and children born in places of confinement 33 IV. The proposed ways of addressing the problem of statelessness in Ukraine 35 V. Conclusions 42 3