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Is the EU Border Guard Agency able to tell Russian passports issued in Ukraine or Georgia from the legitimate ones?
It does not matter.
While I am not privy to the technical details of passport processing, my guess is that the answer to your stated question is 'NO'. After all, we are not talking about counterfeits ...
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Why is the town of Olivenza not as heavily politicized as other territorial disputes?
It is very difficult to look at a real world event, with the tons of factors influencing them, and to cathegorically decide which are the important ones, so any answer might be very opinated.
So I ...
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Why is the town of Olivenza not as heavily politicized as other territorial disputes?
Maybe this is because public of Portugal does not believe that Spain is going to seriously infringe on the rights of this town citizens, so this becomes an administrative objection.
A similar example ...
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How common is it for wars of aggression to end without a counter-invasion to the territory of the aggressor?
The Falklands War. This was, of course, simplified by the border being a sea border.
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Is the EU Border Guard Agency able to tell Russian passports issued in Ukraine or Georgia from the legitimate ones?
Many passports, including Russian ones, contain a field for the issuing authority. For Russia, this is an alphanumeric code. Russia could of course tamper with this, shuffle numbers, but that would ...
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Is the EU Border Guard Agency able to tell Russian passports issued in Ukraine or Georgia from the legitimate ones?
If it is not seen obviously from the passport, the visa application can always include field "place where the passport has been issued", demanding to provide the name, address and phone ...
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Why is the town of Olivenza not as heavily politicized as other territorial disputes?
Important points that other answers missed could be:
Border seems to be reasonable - Looking at the map, border is defined by the river. So pretty standard separation of states. If border would be ...
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Has the Taiwan / Republic of China (ROC) government ever made any territorial claim on areas in Arunachal Pradesh, India, like the Chinese PRC Govt.?
The Republic of China has claimed South Tibet, including the Arunachal Pradesh area, as its territory, at least in the following senses or contexts:
The whole reason of the dispute was that the ROC ...
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Territories claimed by the PRC but not the ROC
Tibet, possibly, according to a 2000 LA Times article:
But Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party--whose leader, Chen Shui-bian, will be sworn in three weeks from now as the government’s first non-...
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What are the signs (news reports etc.) which suggest that another clash between China and India is a real possibility in the coming years?
are there any other news reports which predict/ or see a possibility
of the same thing . . . that China can attack India in coming couple
of years?
I am not aware of any other news reports which ...
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When did India-Pakistan border fencing start?
It started in Punjab in the late 1980s and in Jammu-Kashmir in 1994:
Construction of the fences began in the late 1980s in the state of Punjab when India faced an armed Sikh separatist uprising, and ...
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Is the EU Border Guard Agency able to tell Russian passports issued in Ukraine or Georgia from the legitimate ones?
They can also tell by the residency of the holder
Note that the European council decision reads
Russian travel documents issued in, or to persons resident in, Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine or ...
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