Russia's biometric system has identified 70,000 migrants with entry bans.

A biometric system operating at Russian border crossings has detected approximately 70,000 migrants who were denied entry into the country. This information was announced by Irina Volk, official spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to her statement, approximately 14 million foreigners have crossed the border crossings since the launch of the experiment to collect biometric data from foreign citizens. The experiment began on December 1, 2024, at Moscow's Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky airports, as well as at the Mashtakovo automobile border crossing in the Orenburg Region. Vnukovo International Airport joined the project on May 1, 2025.

These crossings utilize a biometric system developed by the Moscow government, which identifies citizens through border control using photographs and fingerprints.

In June, similar systems were implemented at 11 more border crossing points in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, as well as in the Altai Krai, Irkutsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Orenburg, and Omsk regions. This system not only facilitates data collection but also helps identify individuals who, after receiving an entry ban, changed their identification information and attempted to re-cross the border.