Plates of the top governmental leaders. As a sign of their federal status, the regional code section is replaced with a Russian flag. The plate is of the "one letter-three digits-two letter" format. What is meaningful in this plate's numerology is the letter code, referencing to the organization that owns the car.

The car with such a plate enjoys vast rights and in some cases can even violate the traffic law. The federal authorities claim to continuously decrease the number of these plates as the status of the latters is truly exceptional.

Below are letter codes of the federal plates.

These plates were taken out of use since February 01, 2007. They were replaced by "normal" citizen plates, however, of specific series (see Special Series).
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A***AA - Federal Security Service (bodyguarding)

B***AA - Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Security Counsel, heads of the top religions in Russia, some CIS organizations, RF Representative at the European Human Rights Court

A***AB - Government of the Russian Federation, federal services and agencies, heads of military organizations, natural monopolies leaders, heads of government-owned commercial companies (Bank of Russia, Itar-Tass etc.)

A***AC - Federation Counsel of the Russian Federation, Central Election Committee

A***AM - private vehicles of the State Duma and Federation Counsel members

A***AK - Constitutional, Supreme, Arbitration Courts of the Russian Federation, Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation

A***AO - Clearing Chamber of the Russian Federation.

A***AP - regional leaders
Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian only)
2). Special Series