Spokeswoman Irina Volk's figure, released Thursday, is the ministry's own measure of what the system is for: catching people who left after an entry ban, "changed identification data and attempted re-entry". Identification runs on 2 parameters, photograph and fingerprints. The geography has widened in steps: Moscow's airports and the Mashtakovo crossing first, Vnukovo from May 2025, 11 more checkpoints across the regions from June this year.
“The list, at the border, has become a machine.”
The ministry does not break the 68,900 down by citizenship. Its own framing does the work: citizens of CIS states make up 72.4% of the migration flow. Bishkek's 24.kg carried the number by Friday morning.
The list, at the border, has become a machine. What starts on 1 September is its domestic counterpart: Amina, mandatory for visa-free foreigners, geolocation required, 3 business days of silence from the phone and the migrant drops off the registry, a status Moscow's mayor has described with the word expulsion. It lands beside the patent machinery live since 10 August, where an unpaid monthly tax advance now cancels a work permit with nobody signing the decision. RFE/RL's Central Asia service reported more than 139,000 already removed from the registry for missing app data by mid-December last year.