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In an interview with RIA Novosti, he said that this is more than in all of 2022, when 4.3 thousand people refused their Russian passports. At the same time, in the year of the invasion of Ukraine, the number of people who want to renounce Russian citizenship became a record for three years. In 2020, there were 3.8 thousand such people, and in 2021 - four thousand, the Moscow Times reported.

In Ankara, during a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), the Ukrainian MP Alexander Marikovsky attacked the secretary of the Russian delegation Valery Stavitsky with his fists. The Russian was subsequently hospitalized.

Russian politician and member of the State Duma Aleksey Zhuravlyov calls for the murder of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in a broadcast on Russian state television.

According to the announcement of the State Duma, the meeting on August 25 will discuss the "danger to the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia", reports Reuters.

"Recently, statements have been heard in the West that Russia should be defeated on the battlefield in Donbas - let them try," declared Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the leadership of the State Duma and leaders of the factions.

The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and the chairman of the State Duma's committee for international affairs also stated on the Telegram channel that the North Atlantic Alliance, led by the United States, has consistently tried to get closer to Russia's borders, while mantras about its defensive nature were a "smokescreen."

The MP Yevgeny Fyodorov submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the annulment of the resolution of the State Council of the USSR "on the recognition of the independence of Lithuania". The explanation states that the decision is illegal because it was made by an unconstitutional body in violation of the requirements of several articles of the Constitution of the USSR.

Personnel restrictions are being introduced in response to British sanctions against members of the State Duma of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced.

Russia and Ukraine have completed negotiations on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. The next meeting of the delegations will take place on the Polish-Belarusian border in the next few days, said the head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Medinsky, who is an adviser to President Vladimir Putin, TASS reported.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said earlier today that Kiev could sever diplomatic relations with Russia after Moscow decided to recognize two regions of eastern Ukraine as independent, Reuters reports.