May 5th, 2011 @ St. Petersburg, Russia
Arkady says that there are 4 million invisible men in Russia. “I myself was once invisible for 11 years,” the editor-in-chief of Russian street magazine, “Put Domoi” said.
In Russia, you need to register your stay if it’s more than 90 days. If you don’t, you lose your registration there and it would be so hard to get a job, rent a house, and receive medical treatment, education, and most of the services from the country.
They say the system of Propiska(registration) has just gone since 1995, but situation itself hasn’t changed that much.
Arkady interviewed with 77 invisibles men from October 2008 through February 2009 and made invisible visible. He also made short film on it.
Once you lose the registration, the only way to get it back is to get married or to become an owner of a house, which is very hard in this country.