Is the biometric data used in voter identification at polling stations?

Federal Law on Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum, May 22, 2002 (last amended on July 25, 2011, No 263-FZ), accessed on 10 September 2018

Article 64. Voting Procedure.

5. Ballots shall be issued to voters, referendum participants who are included in a list of voters, referendum participants against presentation of their passports or equivalent identity documents, and if a voter, referendum participant votes on the basis of an absentee certificate, against presentation of such absentee certificate.

Federal Law On Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, February 14, 2014 (last amended on 05.04.2016 No 92-FZ), accessed on 10 September 2018

Article 81. Voting Procedure

6. Ballots shall be issued to voters included in the voter list upon presentation of a passport or the document replacing the passport, and if a voter votes with an absentee vote certificate - upon presentation also of the absentee vote certificate. Each voter is entitled to receive two ballots (except in cases provided for in Part 11 of this Article): one for voting in the federal electoral district and one voting in the respective single-mandate electoral district. If a voter votes with an absentee vote certificate outside the single-mandate electoral district in which he has the active right of suffrage in accordance with Part 2 of Article 4 of the present Federal Law, he shall be entitled to receive only one ballot –for voting in the federal electoral district. Before issuing ballots a member of the precinct election commission shall verify that the voter has not received an absentee vote certificate, has not voted early, that a written statement (verbal statement) of the voter to grant him an opportunity to vote outside the polling station has not been registered in the register specified in Part 2 of Article 83 of the present Federal Law, and that members of the precinct election commission have not been sent to the voter to conduct voting outside the polling station.