According to RIA Novosti, messages with notifications were sent to personal accounts of citizens on the Gosuslug portal, as well as to their e-mail.

“According to information from the Russian Foreign Ministry, due to the failure to fulfill obligations to inform you of your return to Russia, budget funds have been unnecessarily transferred to you in the amount of ...”, the notification said.

The message also contains a request to return the amount received to the budget within five business days from the date of receipt of the notification. 

According to the Ministry of Communications, which oversees the State Services portal, the newsletter was organized at the request of the Russian Foreign Ministry for several thousand Russians based on data provided by the foreign ministry.

Earlier, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, in an interview with the FAN, said that since mid-March, about 260 thousand people have returned to Russia as a whole.