American political analyst John Varoli said he wanted to get Russian citizenship and asked the Russian Foreign Ministry for assistance. "I lived here [in Russia] for 20 years, in the 90s and 2000s. I know Russia very well. I am an expert on Russia and have a degree in the field. I really want to get citizenship," he said during an open discussion titled "Unity of Nations as a Principle of a Multipolar World: Russia's Experience and Its Meaning for International Relations."