14,000 Soviet passports in Moscow
Published: 22 April, 2008, 13:28
About 14,000 Muscovites still live with Soviet-era passports, according to one Russian Federal Migration Service official. Past convictions, ideological views and poverty are all named as reasons in an interfax news agency report.
In all 790 “soviet Muscovites” still have not changed their passport due to previous convictions.
Some 6,000 use their old documents because their current living address does not match their registration.
450 of the capital’s residents cannot afford the $US 4 charge to change their passport.
669 Muscovites have not changed the passport owing to their religious background, and 349 because of their ideological considerations.
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