Moscow - Around 1.5 million people living in Crimea have already been given Russian passports, a spokesman for Russia's Federal Migration Service told Interfax on Thursday, July 24.
“The documents needed to issue Russian passports have already been
accepted from more than 1.6 million residents of Crimea. Approximately
1.56 million passports have already been prepared. Of them, 1.45 million
passports have already been distributed,” the spokesman said.
Federal Migration Service chief Konstantin Romodanovsky told Interfax
at the end of June that the bulk of the work to issue Russian passports
to residents of Crimea had been done.
Today Crimea has a population of around two million people.
