Russia launches universal ID and payment card

Russia as an organized state will likely not even be around in 3 years. Universal ID = FAIL!

What part of universal do you fail to comprehend??
Russia is merely the beta test site.

Imagine a piece of plastic that gets you a doctor's appointment, pays your bills, allows you to rent a car or buy a plane ticket and even get Moscow registration faster than the sham ads in the Moscow metro.

President Dmitry Medvedev promised Monday that three years from now all Russians will have this magic card.

He gave the government till May to make final calculations of the funds necessary to introduce the universal electronic card, or UEC, for all citizens and urged banks to not take advantage of card users at the meeting of the commission on modernization and technological development of the economy Monday.

[link to yourjewishnews.com]

I scanned through all these responses but didn't see this. DOESN'T ANYBODY SEE THE CORROLATION? We're going to have this EXACT same card (minus the currency portion) in the U.S., issued at the same time frame!