A woman poses with a Ukrainian and a Russian passport outside an office of the Russian Federal Migration Service, where she received a Russian passport, in the Crimean city of Simferopol...A woman poses with a Ukrainian (L) and a Russian passport outside an office of the Russian Federal Migration Service, where she received a Russian passport, in the Crimean city of Simferopol in this April 7, 2014 file photo. Since President Vladimir Putin formally annexed Crimea on March 21, confusion has reigned. Courts are paralysed, the banking network is in disarray as Ukrainian and Western banks pull out, and business ties with the mainland are sundered. Picture taken April 7, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Files (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION SOCIETY BUSINESS)

In the first six months of 2020, Estonian citizenship was granted to 391 people, according to the portal rus.err.ee.

According to the publication, the majority of passports (273) were issued to persons who previously had undetermined citizenship (we are talking mainly about the so-called non-citizens).

The second place was taken by the former Russians. The Estonian authorities granted 83 requests from them.

Another 10 passports were issued to citizens of Ukraine.

In addition, in 33 cases citizenship was denied.

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