Mandatory fingerprinting in Russia in the near future?

On October 8, 2015, an international scientific-practical conference was held in the State Duma on the theme: “Improving the system of dactyloscopic registration”.

After the end of the conference, its participants adopted a resolution that recommended an assessment of the legal, organizational and financial possibilities for introducing universal fingerprint registration in the Russian Federation in the foreseeable future .

As a first step, it is recommended to conduct mandatory fingerprinting of citizens who receive a driver's license, passport, weapon permit, as well as those registered in psycho-neurological or narcological dispensaries.
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About 20% of all citizens have passports in the Russian Federation, not less than 60% have a driver's license. Those. according to the most conservative estimates, every second of Russians, or about 70 million Russians, will be obliged to hand over their fingerprints when accepting this proposal.



At the moment, in the Russian Federation, mandatory fingerprinting is carried out by persons who have committed a crime or are under investigation, as well as employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Emergency Situations and other authorities, members of aircraft crews, employees of private security firms. A complete list of citizens who are subject to mandatory fingerprinting can be found in Law No. 128- “On State Dactyloscopic Registration in the Russian Federation” .

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Andrei Lugovoi believes that mandatory fingerprinting will serve to ensure the safety of citizens, society and the state. Its use as a means of suppressing personal freedom, he denies.

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State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Andrei Lugovoi, widely known for the so-called Lugovoi law "On Amendments to the Federal Law " On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection ". No. 398- , allowing pre-trial blocking of sites for extremism.