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Kazakhstan won't issue residency permits to Russians without Kremlin approval.

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Kazakhstan's parliament speaker Maulen Ashimbaev said on Sept. 22 that the country wouldn't deliver permanent residence permits to Russians without the Kremlin's agreement. Some Russians began leaving for Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, where Russians can enter without visas, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced partial "partial mobilization" on Sept. 21.

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The Russian government has been increasingly restricting access to social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram and instead pushing Russian users to the app Max, the development of which was supervised by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

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