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Internal Passport, Foreign Passport, Driving Licence and Residence Permit on one session, screened against Russian regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Russia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Russian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-passport attacks across the consumer-finance market, Internal Passport forgery across the legacy and chip formats, and sanctions-exposure pressure that demands strict OFAC, UK OFSI, EU and UN screening on every onboarding. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Federal Law 115-FZ (PLA/FT)
  • Federal Law 161-FZ (National Payment System)
  • Federal Law 152-FZ (Personal Data)
  • CBR Regulation 499-P (CDD)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
  • OFAC / OFSI / EU sanctions screening
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Russia.

These are the supervisors a Russia verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • CBR

    Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, microfinance institutions, and the National Payment System under Federal Law 161-FZ.

  • Rosfinmonitoring

    Federal Financial Monitoring Service — Russia's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under Federal Law 115-FZ on countering money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

  • Roskomnadzor

    Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media — enforces Federal Law 152-FZ on personal data, including the data-localisation obligation for Russian citizens.

  • FNS

    Federal Tax Service — administers the INN (Individual Tax Number) registry used for tax-payer identification on financial onboarding.

  • FSFM

    Federal Service for Financial Markets (now merged into CBR) — the legacy securities and investment-fund supervisor whose enforcement watchlists remain active in the AML screening pool.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Russia database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Internal Passport (Внутренний паспорт), Foreign Passport (Загранпаспорт, with the chip read on e-Passports), Driving Licence and Residence Permit.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Internal Passport · Foreign Passport
  • Driving Licence
  • Residence Permit
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Russian watchlists:

  • Federal Security Service (FSB) — Terrorist Organizations — sanctions designations under Federal Law 115-FZ.
  • National Antiterrorism Committee — Unified Federal List — designated terrorist organizations and individuals.
  • Rosfinmonitoring — Designated Persons List — Federal Law 115-FZ financial-crime designations.
  • Russian Ministry of Defense (Northern Fleet) — PEP Level 2 military officials.
  • Moscow City Government — PEP Level 4 regional officials.
  • Khabarovsk Krai Government — PEP Level 4 regional officials.
  • Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL) — entity enforcement data.
  • Prosecutor General — Enforcement watchlist — prosecutorial enforcement designations.
  • Federal Tax Service (FNS) — Tax enforcement register — flagged entities and individuals.
  • OFAC SDN, UK OFSI, EU and UN consolidated sanctions — critical for cross-border exposure.
  • Hits are scored by severity — a Ministry of Defense official surfaces as PEP Level 2, a regional governor as PEP Level 4, sanctions as critical.
  • Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears.
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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Bind every check to one audited session.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Russia that Didit currently exposes as a standalone service — the MVD Internal Passport registry and the FNS INN system do not offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Russia document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Russia.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
Read the security & compliance dossier
EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Russia.

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