According to Borisov, the exchange will take place during planned procedures - deregistration of the car, change of its owner, and other registration actions that are usually performed with the vehicle. Borisov modestly kept silent about planned technical inspections, deciding, apparently, not to upset the newly minted Russian citizens prematurely.
Given that not a single car of a peninsula resident has passed Russian technical inspection, motorists will face not just the replacement of "documents" and license plates with new ones, but also passing the technical inspection according to Russian standards. Moreover, this will need to be done before the end of summer.
By the way, in Russia they want to change the procedure for passing technical inspection already this year, in the direction of tightening. And the main goal of the changes should be the fight against gray schemes for issuing diagnostic cards. The initiators of the amendments want to make it almost impossible to buy a diagnostic card without passing the technical inspection.
As Russian experts predict: "most likely, the procedure will become more expensive and will cease to be an ordinary formality, as it is now. However, the main danger is that the technical inspection procedure may return to the 'old tracks', when rampant corruption reigned in the industry, and long queues lined up at inspection points."
