“More than 260 thousand residents of our republic have received a Russian passport at the moment.
Together with the Luhansk People's Republic, this is more than half a million people, ”the Donetsk news agency quotes him.
In November 2020, it was reported that more than 170 thousand residents of the DPR received Russian citizenship under a simplified scheme.
On April 24, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the simplified acquisition of citizenship by residents of the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR.