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Civil partnership

A form of family union that may be established by the state as an alternative to marriage, available to couples of the same sex or gender, but which grants the couple fewer rights than marriage does.

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People's stories 23.08.2026 Yulia and Zhenia …reminder that for me this is an impossible reality right now. And then the new civil code is adopted, civil partnerships are ignored completely — and you have no idea whether it will ever happen at all. And that creates enormous…
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