The Communist Party of the Russian Federation proposes to add a “religion” column to passports and abandon machine-readable codes

The faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma has prepared a bill on the addition Russian passport with the columns "nationality" and "religion". Besides, deputies propose to abandon the use of machine-readable documents in the passport data, which conservative believers have been demanding for several years.

March 14, 2014 a group of deputies from the Communist Party headed by Vladimir Kashin and Vladimir Fedotkin submitted to the State Duma a bill "On passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

The developers, referring to the fact that many citizens (primarily turn, believers) are dissatisfied with the introduction of biometric passports, suggest leave the paper version of the passport, entering the columns "nationality" and "religion" in it.

“It is forbidden to put machine readable entries in the passport, holograms, biometric data, identification numbers, personal codes, chips and other marks not provided for by this Federal Law ," the text of the document says.

“We believe that today's depersonalization is straining international relations. Small nations are too painful for this question. Today, Tatars and Bashkirs in their homeland are happy to fill in the column on the national page of the passport. This practice should be extended to federal level so that no one feels harassed. No true believer a Muslim will not mind being identified as a Muslim; A Orthodox - that he is Orthodox , ”said a member of the Communist Party faction Nikolai Kolomeitsev.

Member of the Moscow Bar Association Viktor Borodin, commenting bill, noted that the column on religion violated the principle non-interference of the state in the affairs of the Church.

14 April 2014, the State Duma Council decided to return the bill to the developer for elimination of violations h. 3 Article. 105 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. According to this article, "the bills providing for expenses covered by the federal budget, may be made only if there is a conclusion of the Government of the Russian Federation . IN in this case, we are talking about the costs of developing a new passport form and replacing population passports.

Sources

• Trifonova E. They beat me not according to my passport... // Independent newspaper. 2014. March 14.
• Bill card No. 470924-6 // Database of the State Duma. 2014.