If a non-resident has no ID at hand, the police will first deliver him/her to the police station even under the new regulations.
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MPs Took Care of Non-Residents without IDs
Special facilities of temporarily accommodation should be created in Russia for non-residents having no identification documents at hand, reasoned a taskforce of the State Duma that elaborated a respective bill. This effort will cost to the budget 120 rubles per a day of accommodation.
According to the State Duma member Viktor Ilyukhin (communist faction), “the people are detained and delivered to investigatory isolation wards or temporarily cells of Interior Ministry” that are aimed at the suspects or accused. But a person, who has lost the ID, is no criminal and doesn’t have to be kept in the so-called monkey houses. The purpose of MPs is to fill exactly this gap, so that when the bill becomes a law, the Federal Migration Service, Interior Ministry and Foreign Ministry set to constructing special facilities or allocating special places in the isolation wards.
But a foreigner with no passport will go through the monkey house anyway. Even under the new regulations, if a policeman spots such non-resident, he will first deliver him/her to the local police station, where only the remand cells could be found. The foreigner will stay there no longer than 48 hours, the MPs said, reasoning this time will suffice for proper identification via the RF Foreign Ministry.
If the foreigner hasn’t been identified on expiration of the term, the police will have to go to the court, which will decide whether to accommodate such non-resident in the special facilities. Accommodating a non-resident there will cost 120 rubles a day to the budget. Given that roughly 6,000 foreigners with no IDs are detained in the country each year, the annual expenses will exceed 64 million rubles.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 23, 2008
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