LPR launches 141 consultation centers for voting in Russian parliamentary election

More than 140 information centers on voting in Russian legislative elections opened across the LPR today to assist the region's residents with Russian passports with registration on the online voting platform.

The Mir Luganschine public movement said that 141 centers offer assistance to all those willing to take part in the election.

Almost 2,000 volunteers work in the centers.

Earlier, Lugansk People’s Republic Head Leonid Pasechnik ordered to organize voting in the Russian parliamentary election for Russian citizens living in the Republic.

Starting July 1, LPR Migration Service offices began to accept applications from LPR residents for Individual Insurance Account Number (SNILS) and account registration on Russia’s State Services portal. SNILS and registration pave way for taking part in the remote voting.

On April, 24, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree easing citizenship rules for residents of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic. The first center for LPR residents seeking Russian citizenship opened in Lugansk on May 6; on June 14, the first group of LPR residents received Russian passports. The Republic currently has such centers in all towns and districts. On April 24, 2020, Putin signed a law exempting Donbass Republics residents from paying the state fee for conferment of citizenship.

As of mid-June 2021, more than 250,000 LPR residents had been granted fast-track Russian citizenship. According to first deputy chairman of the Russian parliament committee on CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Viktor Vodolatsky, over 600,000 Donbass residents had already obtained fast track Russian citizenship. *t