The Ministry of Digital Transformation suggested using “Gosuslugi” to confirm the identity

The Ministry of Digital Transformation proposed to launch a service at Gosuslugakh, with the help of which Russians will be able to confirm their identity in everyday situations, informed Telegram channel of the department.

In particular, the service could be used when making purchases in a store, to confirm the right to free travel, when attending events with entry restrictions, and when entering office centers with a pass system. The Ministry of Digital Development stressed that they do not offer such a service to replace a passport or make its use mandatory.

“Such a service can be a convenient addition to a paper passport for those who are used to constantly using a smartphone. The safety of data will be reliably protected by the state,” the department explained.

A pilot project to use the service can be launched in Moscow, the Ministry of Digital Development added.

The head of the department Maksut Shadayev spoke about this proposal at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the government, transmits “RIA News”. He also noted that he had already discussed holding the pilot in the capital with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

In March last year, the Ministry of Finance published a draft presidential decree on the electronic passport of a Russian citizen. It was planned to issue electronic passports from 2023 in Moscow, the Moscow region and Tatarstan. It was reported that the electronic document will be presented in two forms – in the form of a smart card and an application with a QR code.

Work on this project was suspended after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, wrote in June Forbes. The project of issuing digital passports to Russians was frozen “for financial reasons,” one of the sources said, as well as due to a shortage of materials for electronic media – plastic and chips.

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