In 2022, the Russians set a record for registering civilian acts abroad
In 2022, Russian consular institutions abroad registered 9,532 civil status acts. According to the consular department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which has studied Mediazona, this is a record in recent years. Consulates, according to the law , can register birth and death, adoption and change of name, as well as marriages and divorces. There are no breakdowns in each category in statistics. The Russians abroad last year also received the maximum number of passports since 2015 - 361 048.