4. Google easily found that as Bellincat stated "Mandatory for Russian citizens over the age of 14" passport became mandatory only on 13th March 1997. Being born on 13 July 1979, Petrov became 14 in 1993, so his first passport was issued not at 14, but when he was 16, in 1995.

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