A project was made to the Duma on the reservation of the date of traveling abroad. What does it mean?

The State Duma introduced a bill that will oblige Russians and foreigners to reserve the date and time of crossing the border by car. Amendments can enter into force in a month. The author of the bill is the deputy Yevgeny Moskvichev later stated that this would concern only freight transportation, but the document itself says about all those who left. After criticism of the Kremlin and the Federation Council, he disappeared from the State Duma base. North Realities say what is known about the project.

What is said in the bill?

Deputies want to amend the law "On roads and on road activities in Russia." The project says that the government will approve the list of automobile checkpoints, where it will be necessary to reserve dates and time of crossing the border.

The document also says that a list of roads will be created that adjoin such points. The document does not specify whether all Russian automobile crossing points will be included in the list or this will be a limited list. At the checkpoints, waiting areas should be organized.

At the same time, the developer of the amendments - the head of the Transport Committee Yevgeny Moskvichev - said that the system will not work on the entire border, but only at the "problem points" of the pass, including the Upper Lars (border with Georgia), Yarag -Casmaly (border with Azerbaijan), Transbaikalsk (border with China). Previously, it will be five to seven points.

Will this affect all the inhabitants of Russia?

Evgeny Moskvichev told RBC that the proposal to be required to book the date and time of crossing the border by car applies only to freight vehicles.

“We remove traffic jams that cost 10-15 kilometers. Drivers see no water, or toilets, nothing. And they [drivers] have families-wives, children-therefore we eliminate this problem,” explained Moskvichev RBC.

Moskvichev said the publication "Lifting" that "this does not concern a passenger car that crosses the state border."

Moreover, in the text of the bill itself there are no clarifications that the amendments concern only cargo transportation.

"The passage of vehicles belonging to Russian carriers, foreign carriers, Russian citizens, foreign citizens, stateless persons and others in sections of roads in order to cross the state border of the Russian Federation is carried out on reserved date and time in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation," the document said.

At the moment, amendments have disappeared from the State Duma base.

How to book the date and time of departure?

It will be possible to reserve the date and time for free through the state information system of electronic transportation documents. The list of documents necessary for the execution of documents is still unknown. It will be determined by the government if the amendments are adopted.

The government will also have to decide which categories of vehicles will be able to pass control points out of turn.

Will they be able to refuse the exit?

They will be able, if the necessary documents and information are not provided. The document specifies that this is the only way to refuse the exit.

What kind of waiting zones?

Waiting areas are sites near checkpoints where motorists will be able to wait for their turn to leave. The separate project stipulates what they should be - with hard coating, markings and fences. This zone should also have "technical means" with which you can reserve the date and time of departure, garbage containers, free toilets and water.

When will the amendments begin to operate?

If the amendments are accepted, then the changes should be earned from March 1, 2023 and will be valid for 12 months - until March 1, 2024. The second reading of the project is scheduled for January 24 .

Is this due to mobilization?

Unknown. Moskvichev’s bill and comments say nothing about the fact that amendments are adopted in connection with possible mobilization. Andrei Klishas in the commentary of RBC said that we must be very attentive to the initiative to reserve travel time, since it "can directly affect the constitutional rights of citizens."

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin did not discuss the bill on fixed travel time across the border, and explanations were given on the document.

How residents of Russia fled from the country after mobilization

In September 2022, after the mobilization of mobilization in Russia, huge lines of Russians who wanted to urgently leave the country were lined up on land borders with Kazakhstan and Georgia. Leaving walked on foot or crossed the border on bicycles, threw cars. As the Agency clarifies , 100 thousand people crossed the border with Kazakhstan, more than 50 thousand with Georgia.

At the end of October, the authorities said that mobilization was completed, while the decree was not published on this. Human rights activists stated that this allows you to declare a new wave of calling at any time. On January 23, Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the mobilization decree is valid, but not for the draft, but to solve other military problems.

In early January, Ukrainian intelligence reported that the Russian authorities are planning to declare a new mobilization after the New Year holidays and call for up to 500 thousand people.

What do experts think?

Autoexpert Sergey Aslannyan believes that the initiative to electronic queue for abroad is a “step towards a serious problem when anyone can not leave the country.”

- The basis of this initiative is still accounting and control, not help. Our Motherland has recently stared at the matter of citizens, but to the direction of their movement. In parallel with this initiative, the proposal of everyone has to be “upholstered”, that is, so that everyone was with a military ID: when registering, upon receipt of a driver’s license or a weapon license. These registration actions are built in one logical chain, where you should be with a military ID, and you could find out where and where you go from.

Aslanyan was skeptical of the statements of the deputy Moskvichev, who said that the amendments are made to make life easier for the truckers.

- It cannot be said that we have some very large flow of trucks leaving the country. Still, the turnover fell strongly. Until recently, we had a characteristic feature of the border, when in line for departure (especially on the border with Belarus) there was a column of trucks up to eight to ten kilometers long. And the trucker drivers lived in this line for weeks. This picture of being existed until February 24. Now many Russian drivers are not allowed abroad, they only have the right to go to the transit zone and reaches there. Or do not go abroad at all, but get a truck from your partner. Now Russia in the international arena has been quite noticeably spoiled by its reputation, and a lot of international agreements on Russian drivers have ceased to work.

The expert believes that the amendments on reservation of departure are the first stage of attempts to revive visiting visas, as was the case in the USSR.

- If we say that this initiative clearly talks about streamlining the crossing of borders, then this is not so. Most likely, this is a test of the future scenario associated with the return of Soviet practice of an exit visa. Anyone who, for some reason, wanted abroad, had to obtain permission from the party committee, the KGB and the trade union organization to leave for the exit and for what reason. I see this option rather, and not the desire to take into account traffic flows, they are trying to just take and close the border.

What are visiting visas

In the USSR, away visas appeared back in the 1930s. It was a document allowing to leave the state for a certain time. To get it, it was necessary to go through a number of procedures.

- Write a positive characteristic on yourself.

- Get a characteristic at work and in the party bureau - special meetings were held for this.

- to approve the characteristics of the Commission of the CPSU district committee, where they could ask questions about the party history of the country where a person was traveling.

- Fill out a questionnaire in which it was necessary to tell about the purpose of the trip and tell about your relatives, even the farthest.

- Data on obtaining a visa from the CPSU district committee were sent to the registration and visa department. Its employees notified the Intourist tourism agency on the issuance of permission permission. After that, it was possible to redeem the ticket.

Before leaving the Soviet Union, the applicant left his Soviet passport "to save". When returning, the document gave the owner. Exit visas were canceled only in May 1991.

Autoexpert Aslanyan noted that there are others - simpler - ways to help drivers of trucks.

- At each crossing at the border, it is enough to have a convenient application showing the workload - what is the queue. The driver can improve his route. Conditionally, he needs transition No. 1, and the application tells him that there is a thousand trucks there, but at the transition No. 2 it is clearly visible that three cars are worth. When you are obliged to sign up in the queue, you are tied to it, that is, you must be there. No matter how we introduce electronic queues, there are always people who do not fit there according to their scenario, they have circumstances - “I just ask”, “I am a pensioner”.

According to the lawyer of the First Department and lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov , it is impossible to legally call the reservation of the departure date of the restriction of Russians to freedom of movement.

- The right to leave is retained, it just makes it difficult to exercise this right. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Russia for more than two years, restrictions on the intersection of land and sea borders have been in force. The struggle with coronavirus The duration of such restrictions could not be explained in any way. In fact, this ban was used by the Russian authorities to “filter” people who travel abroad, since all tickets buying on the aircraft fall into the “Wall-Magistral District” base and law enforcement agencies have the opportunity to stop the departure of the person they are interested in, which cannot be said about those who cross the border by car.

I believe that the introduction of an electronic queue for crossing the border also pursues this goal - control of those who leave Russia. I am sure that the information from this line will be synchronized with the “search” base and will become available to law enforcement agencies, ”says Smirnov.

Will there be queues on the borders again?

Lawyer Evgeny Smirnov believes that there will be no queues that were on the borders in the tourist season or during the mobilization period.

- Only a limited number of cars can cross the border daily. All this will significantly complicate the possibility of the departure of Russians, especially in the case of mobilization or any other force majeure, ”he said.

What is known about Moskvichev?

Head of the Transport Committee in the State Duma Evgeny Moskvichev represents United Russia.

In early December 2022, Moskvichev introduced a correction to the taxi bill, which prohibits the activities of taxi ordering in Russia with foreign owners. This amendment fell, for example, Yandex.Taxi - a joint venture of Yandex and the American Uber Technologies, registered in the Netherlands. But at the end of December, Moskvichev recalled the amendment.

In 2019, Moskvichev abandoned the degree of candidate of technical sciences after the Dissernet community convicted the deputy in plagiarism in his dissertation. He received a degree in 2012, defending a dissertation at the Moscow State Road Institute. However, even after the rejection of the degree, the dissolution under the Ural State University of Railways did not see violations in the work of Moskvichev .