Passports from officials began to be selected in the Russian Federation so that they would not escape abroad - Financial Times
According to journalists, employees of the Russian special services began to confiscate documents with officials and heads of state -owned companies. All in order not to allow them to go abroad and to take out important information, which is very afraid of the Kremlin. Currently, the requirements for trips abroad in the public sector have increased significantly. Such pressure increases that the Kremlin and the FSB do not trust the representatives of the Russian elite.
Many officials, businessmen, and those who work in the "sensitive" areas oppose the war, although they do not recognize it in public. In 2014, when the Russian Federation occupied the Crimean Peninsula and invaded the Donbass, the ban on trips was only to the United Kingdom and the US, and with the beginning of a full -scale war, the number of limited destinations increased.
Sources claim that the heads of one of the state -owned industrial companies have generally received instructions not to leave a distance exceeding two hours of driving from the Russian capital. This can only be done after the official request and approval by the authorities. FSB staff also called on all former officials to hand over passports, as they could have access to state secrets.
"Now they come to certain people and say," Please hand over your red internal passports, because you have access to confidential information for the Motherland, so we want to control your movements, "says the former Russian Central Bank official Alexander Prokopenko . According to her, the Kremlin gave the Russian special services full freedom of action, if it is connected with espionage, state secret, and state betrayal.