Under the new law, they will be able not only to obtain a Spanish passport, but also acquire the right to live and work in any country of the European Union. The law does not set an age limit for this category of foreigners.
Foreigners whose grandmother or grandfather was Spanish can also obtain Spanish citizenship, but only after one year of legal residence in the country.
The Spanish government expects that more than a million people will apply for citizenship, mainly residents of Latin America. Among those who will apply for Spanish citizenship, there will certainly be many residents of Russia, BBC suggests - as is known, many Spaniards were evacuated to the Soviet Union during the civil war of the late 1930s.