>>51487
Approval is given for anything as simple as "I have a job offer" or "I've got family there" though. The federation's internal transportation system is very loose and fast. The issue only really comes up when poor people from the outlying regions want to move to Moscow and don't have the money or job offer to afford to actually move to Moscow since they don't want homeless running about willy nilly (and poor people get around this by joining the military). Technically neither does the USA, the states just defer that privilege to the federal government to avoid interstate commerce lawsuits.
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>"Hurr durr everyone is retarded except me because I'm a smarty McSmartFace oh how the mighty have fallen"
Yeah sure, whatever retard. 4/10 for getting me to respond to you being retarded.
>>51490
Because everyone has family everywhere and job offers are aplenty in Russia (outside the cities), it really only applies to the autonomous republics within the federation and to poorfags trying to move to cities. There's some speculation if you want to move to an area that's primarily a military town but nobody is going to bat an eye at your documents if you want to move from the Tatarstan Republic over to Vladivostok (or just in general from a more populated oblast to a less populated one).
>>51491
It's really "somewhere inbetween." If you're a single woman from Novosibirsk, the authorities are probably going to deny your request to go to Chechnya unless you're going to live with family or are going there for a marriage proposition. Similarly if you're some poor bastard from Yakutsk you're going to get stopped and questioned if you want to move to Saint Petersburg or Yekaterinburg or something, but in general it just acts as an ID card, yes. It's more to just make sure people aren't going to become homeless or troublemakers wherever they end up.