Canadian Arend Feenstra, who moved with his family to the Nizhny Novgorod region in early 2024 under a program for citizens of «unfriendly» countries who share «traditional family values», said that to switch from temporary residence to permanent residence he needs to sign a contract for military service with the Russian Ministry of Defense. He referred to the presidential decree of November 5, 2025, «On the Temporary Procedure for Admission to Russian Citizenship and Issuance of a Residence Permit in the Russian Federation».

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The FSB, together with the Investigative Committee of Russia, stopped the activities of a local resident in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the FSB Public Relations Center said. According to the agency, he produced fictitious documents about the political persecution of Russian relocants in order to obtain refugee status abroad.

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