head of the department of citizenship and migration, ministry of internal affairs of belarus, alexey yurievich hello. so, we all understand, new laws, new rules, and now this has affected passports for those belarusians who live abroad, but for such citizens of our country, how can they change their passports today. yes, in fact, on september 7 of this year , presidential decree no. 278 came into force, which regulated the new procedure for exchanging passports of citizens of the republic. who permanently or temporarily reside abroad, and now diplomatic representatives and consular offices cannot perform these functions for citizens of belarus and the citizen of belarus must directly return to the territory of the country of the republic of belarus and apply with the appropriate application, this is an administrative procedure to the civil migration unit of the internal authorities affairs at the place of your last residence, or at the place of that residence, well where he is actually located, and on september 7 our territorial divisions apply this procedure and explain it. citizens, includin