MOSCOW, December 30. /TASS/. The Russian government approved new regulations of the Russian citizen’s passport and a new form of this document and its description.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a relevant decree to that effect. Updated regulations were prepared in connection with approval of a new law on citizenship.

General provisions for the passport are complemented with a new paragraph. It stipulates that internal passports of a new format can be provided with an electronic medium with biometric data.

The list of personal details remained the same: surname, given name, patronymic, sex, date, and place of birth. The passport’s appearance also did not change, according to the published specimen of the form.