“During the specified period, Russian citizenship was received by 184 385 citizens of Ukraine.
Another 16 thousand people received a residence permit, and 7.6 thousand - a temporary residence permit, "- quoted by the TASS agency.
The agency notes that this data does not indicate how many people from this number are residents of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics.
In total, 351,670 foreigners received Russian citizenship during this period.
Most of all immigrants are from Ukraine, in second place is Tajikistan - more than 44 thousand, in third place are citizens of Kazakhstan - about 23 thousand.
Earlier, a bill was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada on the deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship of those who voluntarily received a Russian passport.