Internal passport of Russia

Internal Russian passport
(Russian: Внутренний паспорт гражданина Российской Федерации)

An example of an internal Russian passport
Issued by  Russia
Eligibility requirements 14 years of age
Expiration Renewed at age 20 and 45

The Internal Russian passport (officially in Russian: Паспорт гражданина Российской Федерации, commonly referred to as внутренний паспорт, общегражданский паспорт) is an identity document for Russian citizens who are aged 14 or over.

History

In 1992, passports – or other photo identification documents – became necessary to board a train. Train tickets started to bear passenger names, allegedly, as an effort to combat speculative reselling of the tickets.

On 9 December 1992, special pages were introduced which were affixed in Soviet passports, certifying that the bearer of the passport was a citizen of Russia. These pages were optional unless travelling to the other former Soviet republics which continued to accept Soviet passports; for other occasions, other proofs of citizenship were accepted as well. Issuance of the pages continued until the end of 2002.

On 8 July 1997, the currently-used design of the Russian internal passport was introduced. Unlike the Soviet passports, which had three photo pages, the new passports only have one. A passport is first issued at the age of 14, and then replaced upon reaching the ages of 20 and 45. The text in the passports is in Russian, but passports issued in autonomous entities may, on the bearer's request, contain an additional page duplicating all data in one of the official local languages.

A deadline for exchanging old passports for the new ones was initially set at year-end of 2001, but then extended several times and finally set at 30 June 2004. The government had first regulated that having failed to exchange one's passport would constitute a punishable violation. However, the Supreme Court ruled to the effect that citizens cannot be obliged to exchange their passports. The Soviet passports ceased to be valid as means of personal identification since mid-2004, but it is still legal (though barely practical) to have one.

The propiska was formally abandoned soon after adoption of the current Constitution in 1993, and replaced with "residency registration" which, in principle, was simply notification of one's place of residence.

Nevertheless, under the new regulations, permanent registration records are stamped in citizens' internal passports just as were propiskas. This has led to the widespread misconception that registration was just a new name for the propiska; many continue to call it "propiska". This misconception is partly reinforced by the fact that the existing rules for registration make it an onerous process, dependent on the consent of landlords, which effectively prevents tenants of flats from registering.

Replacement with Universal Electronic Cards ,but its not a Mandatory by Law

In November 2010 Federal Migration Service had made an announcement of possible cancellation of internal passports with a replacement with plastic ID cards or driver's licenses.[1] Starting from the 1st January 2013, so called Universal electronic cards (Russian: Универсальная электронная карта) are being issued. By the year 2015 they starting set to fully replace old internal passports.[2] By Law its not obligation to receive this card,and internal passport most document only to proof of identity in RF www.dk.ru/wiki/universalnaya-elektronnaya-karta

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References

  1. ↑ "BBC Russian – Россия – Россия упрощает регистрацию и хочет отменить паспорта" (in Russian). BBC. 2010-11-18. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
  2. ↑ Innes, Joe (2013-01-23). "Russian Domestic Passports to Be Replaced by Smart Cards". russiaSLAM. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
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