Next year half a million of biometrical foreign passports will be released for Russian citizens. This was informed by radio station "Moscow Echo". The price of microchip will be about 10% of price of new document. Passport production costs less than $70 and it will be valid for 10 years. As a reminder, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed decree about introduction of foreign passports of new generation, with information about passport`s owner on electronic medium, since January 1, 2005. New Russian passport will be similar to current one, but its title page will be plastic and a little bite thicker than usual. Plastic page will contain passport information and photo of owner, and interior electronic chip will duplicate graphic passport data and contain digital photo of a person. New foreign passports will be valid along with passports of old example. Terms of their exchange are not limited.