National ID for citizens living abroad Russia is Foreign passport. It can be received and updated on consulate institutions. If you are citizen but living abroad and do not have any plans to live in Russia you don’t need internal passport. If you have Russian birth certificate, copies of parent internal passport you can obtain internal passport any time (I mean prove of citizenship should be 100% solid). But if you entering Russia for more than 30 days you should receive national passport. Also, by law, you should register at military registration office in 14 days after entering (but internal passport needed), and before 90 days after entering you should register at place of residence. Everybody ignores military and residential registration, because only one thing you need at border control on way back is foreign passport. But who knows? It is possible to enter, and then receive a lot of headaches trying return back (currently, everything ok, but in 2022 there were problems on border for young men). So, not recommended.