INTERIOR MINISTRY RESISTS CHANGE IN INTERNAL PASSPORTS.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 29

The Interior ministry opposes a shift to a simpler personal document and hopes to keep the existing internal passport with all its indications about the bearer’s life, Moscow radio reported June 7. Nonetheless, the station said, the Russian government plans to go ahead with the shift sometime later this year.

Security Officers Exchange Fire in Moscow.