Almost 1, 8 million Crimean received a Russian passport, stated in the press service of the Russian Federal migration service.

Crimea came from the Ukraine and was reunited with Russia in March 2014, in the same month, then began to issue Russian passports. In mid-September, Commissioner of the Federal migration service reported that the passports of Citizens of the Russian Federation has received Almost all the inhabitants of the Peninsula is Almost 1, 75 million people.

" More than 1, 8 million documents taken on the design of internal Russian passports from citizens of the Crimea and Sevastopol, Almost 1, 8 Russian passports issued, " - said the Ministry.

According to the latest Ukrainian census, held in 2001, in the Crimea, then lived More than 2 million people. First it was claimed that the population of the Crimea for the last 10 years - from 1995 to 2014 - fell by More than 250 thousand people, with the main Growth in these years was provided by migrants.

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