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In the Russian Federation, law enforcement is the responsibility of a variety of different agencies. The Russian police (formerly the militsiya) are the primary law enforcement agency, with the Investigative Committee of Russia as the main investigative agency, and the Federal Security Service (FSB) as the main domestic security agency.
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The unarmed police officers attempted to evacuate the panicked group of demonstrators, however a video taken secretly by opposition journalists showed that soldiers did not allow doctors and emergency workers to help the injured people; even ambulances were attacked by the advancing soldiers [7] Captured on film, the image of a young man ...
Under the reform, the name of Russian law enforcers was changed from the Soviet-era term "militsiya" (militia) to the more universal "politsiya" (police) on March 1, 2011. [5] The number of police officers was reduced by 20%, dropping from 1.28 million to 1.1 million by 2012.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities have detained two U.S. nationals, including a serving U.S. soldier, in two separate cases, the Interior Ministry and Moscow's court service said on Tuesday ...
Moscow Police HQ, Petrovka 38, Tverskoy District. The Moscow Police (Russian: Московская полиция), officially the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the City of Moscow (Russian: Главное управление внутренних дел по городу Москве), is the police force for Moscow, Russia.
35 years on, house librarian Tizane Navea-Rogers revisits the bloodless Velvet Revolution that changed the face of a nation
Soviet militsiya officer's cap cockade (service/parade version).. The name militsiya as applied to police forces originates from a Russian Provisional Government decree dated April 17, 1917, and from early Soviet history: both the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks intended to associate their new law-enforcement authority with the self-organisation of the people and to distinguish it ...