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thisguy
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 Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: lie dectector test in Moscow |
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| Hey I have read in different places that foreigners arriving Moscow now have to tak a lie detector test at the airport is this true? |
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Daria
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: lie dectector test in Moscow |
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| thisguy wrote: | | Hey I have read in different places that foreigners arriving Moscow now have to tak a lie detector test at the airport is this true? |
Where did you get that info?  |
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Daria
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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"Millions of airline passengers travelling through Russia will soon have to take a lie detector test as part of new security measures.
The technology, to be introduced at Moscow's Domodedovo airport as early as July, is intended to identify terrorists and drug smugglers. If successful, it could revolutionise check-ins.
At first, only passengers deemed suspicious will take the test
Passengers will pick up the handset of a "truth verifier" machine while they are asked questions. Apparently the machine, developed by an Israeli company, can even establish whether answers come from the memory or the imagination.
The technology is being used by some insurance companies in Britain to screen telephone claims for fraud.
"We know that this could be uncomfortable for some passengers but it is a necessary step," said Vladimir Kornilov, the IT director for East Line, which operates the airport.
At first, only passengers deemed suspicious by the FSB, the security service that succeeded the KGB, will take the test. But it will eventually encompass all passengers.
"If a person fails, he is accompanied by a guard to a cubicle where he is asked questions in a more intense atmosphere," Mr Kornilov said.
The machine asks four questions. The first is for full identity, while the second, unnerving in its Soviet-style abruptness, demands: "Have you ever lied to the authorities?" It then asks if the passenger is carrying weapons or narcotics.
To cut delays to a minimum, passengers will take the test after putting their shoes and baggage through the X-ray machines and before retrieving them. Officials insist that it will take between 30 seconds and a minute." |
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danbrew
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So I'm going over in a few weeks with my wife. Will they ask questions about girlfriends?
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overseas_expat
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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This is the most off-the-wall BS I've ever heard.
There is NO lie detector test at Russian customs for anyone. That's just whack.
danbrew, Russian passport control looks at your documents to see that they are in order, stamps your passport, and opens the gate for you to pass through. The only people I've ever seen them question is Arabs and middle easterners, and you I assume, are neither.
Ummm Daria, thanks for the copy and paste, but you failed to give a link or tell anyone where that piffle came from..... |
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Daria
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5_Zvehzda
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| It's surprising the link doesn't originate from Pravda's webite. |
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kolobed
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| overseas_expat wrote: | This is the most off-the-wall BS I've ever heard.
There is NO lie detector test at Russian customs for anyone. That's just whack.
danbrew, Russian passport control looks at your documents to see that they are in order, stamps your passport, and opens the gate for you to pass through. The only people I've ever seen them question is Arabs and middle easterners, and you I assume, are neither.
Ummm Daria, thanks for the copy and paste, but you failed to give a link or tell anyone where that piffle came from..... |
the keyword in the article is soon |
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danbrew
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| overseas_expat wrote: | danbrew, Russian passport control looks at your documents to see that they are in order, stamps your passport, and opens the gate for you to pass through. The only people I've ever seen them question is Arabs and middle easterners, and you I assume, are neither.
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Really? My wife is already really really mad about this.
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jo-jo-7
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| danbrew wrote: | So I'm going over in a few weeks with my wife. Will they ask questions about girlfriends?
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Present or past?  |
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danbrew
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| jo jo 7 wrote: | | danbrew wrote: | So I'm going over in a few weeks with my wife. Will they ask questions about girlfriends?
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Depends. What did you have in mind?
'ya know, you don't live too far from me. want to go to russia this summer?
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tuller
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I doubt the lie detector test, but who knows about Russia.
We pop in and out of Russia several times a year, neither my wife, the twins nor myself have ever had to take our shoes off at SVO except for our trip over in May...we had to do that at the Delta check-in on our way leaving to fly back home.
We thought the Russian security at SVO was rather relaxed this trip also.
We're going again in July and leave the twins with their grandmother for a month...maybe a lie dector test will be in order for the twins....we call them our "thugs"...SVO customs probably has the same thoughts about them also
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jo-jo-7
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| danbrew wrote: | | jo jo 7 wrote: | | danbrew wrote: | So I'm going over in a few weeks with my wife. Will they ask questions about girlfriends?
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Depends. What did you have in mind?
'ya know, you don't live too far from me. want to go to russia this summer?
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There is a "single" man who has offered to take me to Russia. I don't go places with men who are married, but thank you for your offer.
Your wife must be a patient person to put up with a huuuusband who has mistresses. lol  |
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gomer
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| tuller wrote: | | SVO customs probably has the same thoughts about them also |
After watching people go through Customs at SVO-2, I wonder why they even bother to have a Red Channel. People with suitcases stacked 4 high on buggies go through the Green Channel routinely. |
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danbrew
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| jo jo 7 wrote: | | danbrew wrote: | | jo jo 7 wrote: | | danbrew wrote: | So I'm going over in a few weeks with my wife. Will they ask questions about girlfriends?
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Present or past? |
Depends. What did you have in mind?
'ya know, you don't live too far from me. want to go to russia this summer?
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There is a "single" man who has offered to take me to Russia. I don't go places with men who are married, but thank you for your offer.
Your wife must be a patient person to put up with a huuuusband who has mistresses. lol |
Some have said that a mistress is what makes the world go around. Having said that, though, I wasn't asking you to be my mistress. We'd have to meet first. I think you're a tad bit young for me anyway...
Perhaps we should all plan a trip to Russia? |
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