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Russia may soon have more registries than citizens. Quiz: try to tell the real lists from the still-absurd fiction

By boriskov · Published on June 18, 2026

Quiz

Russia may soon end up with more registries than citizens.

Try to identify which of them actually exist and which, for now, remain absurd fiction.

The country already has a vast number of state registries in operation: from military registration, the registry of “foreign agents”, and “undesirable” organizations to the list of extremist materials. But the authorities’ imagination does not stop there, and at times even the strangest proposals by officials to create another absurd list acquire the force of law.

Recently, the number of such registries has increased, and this is impossible to ignore.

We have collected 15 registries — try to guess which of them are real and which do not yet exist.

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