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“Every immigration attorney in the tristate area is calling us,” said Sarah Klein, Mrs. Volkov-Morrison’s estate executor. “Anastasia thought she was being thorough by writing a will. She never imagined that the country of her birth would come back to life in a legal form to claim her savings.”

The core legal challenge stems from the fact that Mrs. Volkov-Morrison was born in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) in 1939—a sovereign political entity that ceased to exist on December 26, 1991. first soviet citizen will probated in the united states

“This is not about politics,” Judge Rehnquist stated from the bench. “It is about determining what set of laws—Delaware’s, the defunct USSR’s, or modern Belarus’s—governs the distribution of a deceased person’s property. We are in uncharted waters.” “Every immigration attorney in the tristate area is