The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill on the obligation to reserve a date and time for crossing the border by truck. The document was published in the legislative base of the lower house of parliament.
The text of the amendments states that they relate to «the passage of trucks used for international road transport.» Deputies explain the need for changes by reducing the queues at the border.
The bill was introduced in August last year, and in January 2023 it was amended for the second reading. At that time, the text of the document did not specify whether drivers of cars would have to reserve time, which caused panic.
Then the head of the committee, Yevgeny Moskvichev, assured that the restrictions would only affect trucking.
In September In 2022, after the start of mobilization, Russians began to leave en masse for Georgia and Kazakhstan across land borders. Due to the heavy workload at checkpoints at the borders, many kilometers of queues accumulated, in which people had to stand for tens of hours. The longest queue was at the Upper Lars checkpoint in North Ossetia.
The State Duma discusses a ban on cars leaving Russia without prior reservation . The authorities say that it is only about trucks. What's going on?