Police Colonel Alexey Gasak, head of the agency controlling and supervising the activities of the Department of External Migration and Labor of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that since the beginning of 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has restricted the entry of more than 160 thousand foreigners into Russia.
He added that attempts to enter Russia were also blocked – before the decision to ban entry – by about three thousand foreigners who had changed their names and surnames, the report said. RIA Novosti.
In October 2024, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, reported that in the same 10 months of 2024, the number of foreigners denied entry amounted to almost 180 thousand.
