According to Sergey Kalyuzhny, Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, since March 1, 2010, in Russia over 292,000 passports of new generation with 10 year period of validity have been issued.
In total, as he said, during the first three months of the current year more than 1 million passports were issued and it was by 28% as much as in the similar period of the last year.
RIA Novosti
