During the unveiling of the new system, head of Federal Migration Service Kostantin Romodanovsky explained to Vladimir Putin that the service will become effective on April 1, making the process of obtaining both Russian and foreign passports significantly easier.
According to Romodanovsky, the procedure will consist of three stages: first, you fill in the electronic form, second, you go to the local office of the Federal Migration Service to be photographed, and third, you receive the passport. All in all, the procedure will take up to a month – making connection with Federal Security Service, Romodanovsky said, which takes about 15 days in 90% of the cases.
Putin was also shown how the new registration system works – an operator found all the information about the trips to and from Russia of former Russian football team coach Gus Hiddink.
Then Putin asked to show him details on the number of foreigners who cross the county’s border. When the PM saw, among the other countries, the one named “German Democratic Republic,” he was much surprised.
“There’s no such country,” Putin said, “There can’t be any citizens from that county either. What nonsense!”
The operator explained that there still are citizens with GDR passports, but Putin firmly stood his ground. The operator promised to take this into account.
The next operator showed the PM one more programme allowing a person to check whether his password is authentic.
However, this system is only the first step on Russia’s road to e-government.
Another e-project announced by the Kremlin is a state-created computer search engine. According to Russian officials, this could be used for finding more accurate information about e-government systems being created this year with a budget of about $100 million.
“The new search engine will probably be able to protect people from content which is considered to be illegal in Russia – xenophobic, pornographic etc.” Urvan Parfentiev, co-ordinator of the Safer Internet Centre, told RT.
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Quelle/Source: RT, 26.03.2010
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