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In Ukraine and Russia, your passport for ID and passport for travel may be two separate documents - паспорт and загранпаспорт, the former is probably what Griskha meant by 'internal'.

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Yes. What English-speaking world calls "passport" is what in Russian is literally "abroad-passport".

In German it's literally "travel pass"

In English it's literally "pass port" to pass through a port.

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