> In Russia, it's the police who ask you for an id all the time
Police rarely ask anyone with slavic appearance for an id. That mostly happens to people who look like gypsies or those from Caucasus (for some reason "caucasian" means "generic white race" in English and "people of the Caucasus" in Russian).
The idea of the "Caucasian race" comes from a German philosopher in the 18th century. It has to do with him considering the Georgian people (from the Caucasus) to be the most glorious looking white people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race#Origin_of_the_co...
Police rarely ask anyone with slavic appearance for an id. That mostly happens to people who look like gypsies or those from Caucasus (for some reason "caucasian" means "generic white race" in English and "people of the Caucasus" in Russian).