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Queue in line
Crimeans have been trying for weeks to exchange Ukrainian documents for Russian: photo report Deutsche Welle
By the end of the year, residents of Crimea must exchange Ukrainian documents for Russian. Because of this, in Simferopol there were queues to many state institutions. People stand in lines to change their passport, and for weeks they are waiting for documents about the right to property. The correspondent of the Russian editors of Deutsche Welle Julia Vishnevetskaya told and showed what the receipt of documents is worth.
774 people want to get to the Federal Migration Service of Simferopol, while on the day officials accept about a dozen. Three times a week, local residents have to go on roll call. Those who did not appear are sent to the end of the line.
You can get a certificate of ownership by standing in an electronic queue. But in order to get a coupon, you need to defend a live queue on the street, in which there are about 4 thousand people. Places in the queue are sold.
A similar situation has developed with the replacement of Ukrainian car signs with Russian, receiving pension certificates and even with payment of bills.
The line is in the Goskom Register: in order not to forget who stood for whom, people write numbers on their arm.