The Ministry of Internal Affairs warned of the risks of a shortage of printers for printing passports

Deliveries of matrix printers of foreign vendors, which the Ministry of Internal Affairs uses to print internal passports, have ceased due to sanctions, while such equipment is not produced in Russia, Yury Voynov, head of the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, warned, speaking on November 24 at a round table in the Council Federation dedicated to supporting import substitution in the field of information and communication technologies. The department is not able to purchase new printers, which in the future may lead to problems with the issuance of new passports.

“Matrix printers, historically, are not produced in Russia. Given the introduction of new sanctions, we theoretically cannot even buy new ones,” Voinov said. According to him, the department is ready to buy equipment from domestic developers if they can develop it in accordance with certain quality requirements. “We, as a government agency, cannot say: here is money in advance for you and you will give us in three years [принтеры], – explained the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “But we are ready to say clearly, with a guarantee: if you provide us with printers that meet clear and understandable requirements, then we will really buy them and are ready to order these volumes.”