"The first person in Moscow who received a green" non-citizen passport "- a temporary identity card - was 53-year-old Yakubdzhan Khakimdzhanov", - quoted by RIA Novosti Merkacheva.

According to her, Khakimdzhanov spent more than two years in the temporary detention center for foreign citizens of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, since he could not be deported to any country due to his lack of citizenship.

According to the man himself, he was born in Dushanbe when he was five years old, the family moved to Astrakhan, did not go to school.

On December 31, writer Suzanne Massy, ​​a former employee of the US State Department, ex-adviser to US President Ronald Reagan, spoke about the reasons for obtaining Russian citizenship.