Confiscination of passports with the fresh ‘discipline’ FSB tool

Since the beginning of the year, Russia has recorded more than 100 cases of Russian passport confiscation during passport control**. This is related to the law "on a single list of grounds for invalidating passports", which entered into force in December 2023. According to these amendments, border officials, unlike the erstwhile version of this law, have the right to confiscate a abroad passport on the spot, without having to examine it.