license plates

[slvrcld1]

Hello,
I am doing a report where I've been instructed to make a fake license plate for a famous person. Does anyone know what a Russian lisence place looks like? Specifically one from Tobolsk or St. Petersburg?
Thankyou so much!

[Daria]

Hi -

As far as I know, all license plates from any place in Russia look the same way. They used to have a black background, now they are white with some numbers and letters and small Russian flag. I do not think that any "fun" words or pictures are allowed on them. At least, I have never seen it myself.

[Dr_Woland]

My plate in Moscow has black letters on a white background, and the number (so you can use the format) is:

A528TE20

looking out of my window at the moment, the cars parked outside have plates:

Y530HP99
M038MX56
P635TH96

If the car is registered to a foreigner, it's supposed to have a yellow background, not a white background. (Don't ask how I got mine! But you get pulled-over waaaay less with a white plate by the traffic cops :-)

Dr W.

[kyrie777]

So I see profiling is alive and well in Russia. Convenient that they have such segregation. I wonder about yellow as an old symbol of contamination..

So has the Dr. ever seen a personalized tag?

K

[benCA]

kyria
profiling is alive and well in USA too. What you drive effects on how many times you will be pulled over. What i remember about Russian plates is that they are different in size. its little thinner and wider.

[Sammy]

Kyrie is right. Profiling and segregation is alive in Russia. A police will easily know you are a foreigner from your numberplates and you know what next......? (better be quiet). You can leave Russia anyhow, you'll need an EXIT-VISA as a foreiner. The process of the exit visa takes long (depending on your luck or how much quid you've got); however you might not be able to meet your goal. To leave Russia you'll need to plan ahead.
However, I'm just trying to say profiling and segregation is core in Russia than in Germany, U.S., or any other place I've been to in the world.

[Sammy]

correction to the above input.
<<you can't leave Russia anyhow...>>