TASS: 5.4 million biometric passports were issued in Russia in 2022

January 31, 2023 | 13:23 |6838

Last year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia issued over 5.4 million biometric passports, TASS reports, referring to the Ministry's indicators on the migration situation for January-December 2022.

This is 1.5 million more compared to the same period in 2021 — then almost 3.9 million biometric passports were issued.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in December 2021, more than 560 thousand people received biometric passports — more than in any other month last year.

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