Chief of the Visa and Passport Department of the Police of Armenia Hovhannes Kocharyan has urged people not to panic about Russia's possible decision to ban entry for CIS citizens having no foreign passports.
He told ArmInfo on Monday that the biometric passport system launched in Armenia on June 1 2012 is designed to solve this problem. "That's exactly why we are advising our citizens to replace their ordinary passports with biometric ones. If they do, they will have no problems even if Russia adopts such a decision," Kocharyan said.