Moscow / 23.01.20 / Turan: In 2019, 13,500 Azerbaijanis received Russian citizenship, the Russian Interior Ministry said on the website of this department; 24,000 Armenian citizens and 2,500 Georgian citizens received a Russian passport.
In total, 498,000 foreigners received Russian citizenship in 2019, which is 80% more than a year earlier. The vast majority of them are Ukrainians.
Russia issues Russian passports to Ukrainians, without requiring them to renounce Ukrainian citizenship.
Then come the Kazakhs - 50.5 thousand, then Tajiks - 45 thousand, then Armenians.
In recent years, Russia regularly simplifies the procedure for obtaining citizenship for immigrants from the former republics of the USSR. -02D-
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