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> Russia confiscates passports of senior officials ... which passport? Russians have two passports, one is for the internal matters and other one for travelin
by justsomehnguy 4y ago
> Russia confiscates passports of senior officials
... which passport? Russians have two passports, one is for the internal matters and other one for traveling abroad.
Add: lol downwotes. Sure, guys, you are always concentrated and read the article, filled with the fillers and stating what the water is wet to the brim, because, you know, someone may wake up from 20 years coma and suddenly need to read this article.
And to those who missed that part, like me:
> Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian central bank official, said passport restrictions had now expanded beyond individuals with security clearance.
> “Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,” she said.
Which to me sounds like bullshit.
- viraptor 4y agoThe answer is in the article.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago> “Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,” she said. It's amusing what you bothered to reply.
- zinekeller 4y agoThe passports that the general (foreign) audience knows - the external/international one.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoNope, internal one. See the update
- zinekeller 4y agoCan you quote the update? The nearest phrase that can be interpreted as the internal passport is "please hand in your red civilian passports" (full context below), but this refers to the red-coloured external passport (as opposed to green diplomatic, blue service, and maroon internal passport). Quotation follows: > Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian central bank official, said passport restrictions had now expanded beyond individuals with security clearance. > “Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,” she said.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago(sorry for answering here, replies are disabled under your last comment for me, I guess the flood/flame protection) > Can you quote the update? 'civilian' is a direct translation of 'гражда́нский'[0] which would be a typical mistake for someone translating from Russian to English without context or the knowledge. So I think it's the internal one referenced here. Honestly, taking the external passport wouldn't make sense, because the only place where it would be needed officially is after the border crossing and someone in the stop list would be stopped long before that by checking the internal passport. And at least some neighbouring countries allows crossing by Russian internal passport, so the external one isn't even needed. But still the article reads as a cheap propaganda so until a more solid evidence shows up I would chalk it under the usual exaggeration of 'everything is bad there'. > but this refers to the red-coloured external passport I think both the red and maroon are referred as red there. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B...
- darrenf 4y agoThe passport required for foreign travel seems the likely answer, given: > Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesperson, confirmed Russia had tightened the restrictions on foreign travel for some who work in “sensitive” areas