The Propiska

Did you know that in Russia without propiska you can not do anything?

Propiska is the administrative status that a Russian citizen acquires when he is registers his place of residence. This entry is duly stamped in his passport Inside is the only key to a bureaucratic existence and the rights it provides. Whithout it your are paperless in your own country.

Whatever the reasons, if you lose your apartment, it is the same for the propiska. And without propiska it is impossible to find an apartment, find work, to travel inside the country and to demand that your rights as a citizen are recognized For example having a roof, a job, an internal passport, the right to vote , to access welfare, to go in court.

This administrative nightmare becomes even greater when taking steps to obtain a Russian passport. In fact, the acquisition comes with an obligation: the citizen must hold  Russian nationality. However, the breakup of the Soviet Union in many nations has left many citizens without this status. A nightmare situation for millions of citizens of the former USSR.

In order to have a legal work permit, you will need to provide the followings to the authorities:

• internal passport

• Tax registration

• Map of pension fund

• Passport Military

Obviously, it is still possible to buy these documents illegally, but they are very expensive and can not guarantee your safety.

In another case, the first formal steps require at least six months but it is more often a question of a year or more.

This delay implies that undocumented remains a long time in the street, diminishing his chances of rehabilitation. For him, there is no official center for rehabilitation.

To overcome this total lack of administration identity, the legal department of Nochlezhka helps the homeless by providing them with an identity card "home" tacitly recognized by the authorities in St Petersburg as they can work and have a roof and wait to obtain official papers .