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From what I understand:

There are countries in Europe that are not a member of the European Union. Eg: UK, Switzerland, Norway.

From what the OP said, they are from Russia, and studying in another eastern European country. (Russians (as well as plenty of non-Russians) have a tendency to go to Europe/UK/USA/Canada etc for higher studies I think.)

Russia is not a member of EU.

The eastern-European country the OP is studying in is probably a member of EU, and from there the person is trying to acquire an EU passport.

I'm guessing OP wasn't studying in Ukraine (which AFAIK isn't in EU), because then they'd have bigger problems at the moment than data science seeming like a waste. (By the way, I see unconfirmed reports that Ukraine has just been made a EU member. Like, today).

tl;dr: non-EU citizen trying to acquire EU citizenship.

[Ajef]

> By the way, I see unconfirmed reports that Ukraine has just been made a EU member. Like, today

This does not happen overnight. Also it would be all over official news outlets and the website of the european union.

[Edit] The absurdity of that statement has triggered me a bit to be honest. It seems so unrealistic for me as a German that the EU as an organization is capable of such a reaction due to to it's structuring and the process involved, that even suggesting it on something like hn without some sort of source with current event being what they are seems like either trolling or an attempt at propaganda. I do understand however if your comment was made out of lack of knowledge of what the EU is. The world is a complicated place and we all live in our bubbles.

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> The absurdity of that statement has triggered me a bit to be honest.

Oops I'm so sorry I never meant any offence.

I did mention it was unconfirmed.

Anyway, for everybody who's reading: I was wrong. It looks like Ukraine's not a member of EU at the moment.

You're right I don't have a deep knowledge of EU or Europe; I shouldn't have said anything.

> either trolling or an attempt at propaganda Oh please no. I have nothing to do with propaganda. Nor was I trolling. (Which makes your statement a "false dichotomy fallacy").

[Ajef]

All I saw was studying in eastern europe and "lives in Russia". Russia is in eastern Europe although usually not referred to as an eastern european nation.

I am aware of the EU and it's member states, I'm a little confused as to what might have implied I did not. I am from an EU member state.

I was just curious about if and how they planned to aquire citizenship because it's a lengthly process and they mentioned they were in the process while living in Russia. Usually residence permit is the way to go (and years later citizenship). It was rightly pointed out that if you can prove descent from a citizen it might be easier.