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More than 1000 Kazakhs renounced Russian nationality after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - Interior Ministry
More than 1000 Kazakhs have renounced their Russian nationality during the years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan in response to a request from Paryz.kz, Censor.NET reports.
"In their identity documents, 3254 people wished to change their nationality:
in 2021 - 3254 people;
in 2022 - 3363 people;
in 2023 - 3366 people;
in 2024 (to date) - 2158 people," the statement said.
"Thus, according to the analysis, the largest number of Kazakhs changed their nationality from "Russian" to "German" - 743, from "Uzbek" to "Kazakh" - 354, from "Russian" to "Ukrainian" - 300, from "Ukrainian" to "Russian" - 246, from "Russian" to "Kazakh" - 118," the agency said.
