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Since 2006, Russian passports will contain a three -dimensional photo and fingerprints
Biometric foreign passports that will begin to be issued in Russia since 2006 will contain two -dimensional and three -dimensional photographs of the face, as well as fingerprints. This was stated by ITAR -TASS in the "Substract", which became the winner of the competition for the development of a new -sample foreign abroad. "Technically new in the passport will be only a plastic page with a photograph and a microchip" sewn "into it," Stanislav Mikhailov, Deputy General Director of Stekhok, explained. - However, the technologies that we use will allow us to add any amount of additional information in the future, for example, the rainbow shell of the eye or a sample of speech. ”According to the representatives of the“ sunrise ”, the program for introducing biometric passports is designed for three years and cost the state of 14 billion rubles. The first lucky ones who will receive the“ documents of the 21st century ”will be residents of the two Russian capitals and the inhabitants of the Russian Exclates - Kaliningrad region - they will become the owners of new passports in 2006.
Source: gzt.ru