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Law Enforcement In Russia
In the Russian Federation, law enforcement is the responsibility of a variety of different agencies. The Russian police (formerly the ') 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. Agencies * Ministry of Internal Affairs: ** The Police of Russia (') provide public security functions. Formerly the ''militsiya'' ** Main Directorate for Drugs Control * The Investigative Committee of Russia is an investigative body, sometimes described as the "Russian FBI". * Ministry of Justice: ** Federal Service of Punishment Execution (FSIN) is responsible for the penal correction and prison system of Russia * The Federal Security Service (FSB) is the domestic security service, and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era Cheka, NKVD, and KGB. Responsible for anti-terrorism operations. ** The Federal Border Guard Service is subordinate to t ...
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Russian Federation
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ...
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Coast Guard (Russia)
The Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of Russia (), previously known as the Maritime Units of the KGB Border Troops (), is the coast guard of Russia. The purpose of the formation of the Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of Russia is to create a modern comprehensive and multifunctional system for protecting the national interests of Russia in the border area on the border area (Coast, sea coast, inland sea waters and the Territorial waters, territorial sea), in the Exclusive economic zone of Russia, exclusive economic zone and on the continental shelf of Russia, taking into account the ongoing changes in political, economic, social life in the country and providing favorable conditions for the implementation of legal economic, fishing and other activities in the maritime border area of Russia. Currently, the Coast Guard is part of the FSB Border Service of Russia (). History Marine Units of the Border Troops of the USSR After the end of the Second World War in 1945, th ...
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Federal Protective Service Of Russia
The Federal Guard Service of the Russian Federation ( rus, Федеральная служба охраны Российской Федерации, p=fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnəjə ˈsluʐbə ɐˈxranɨ rɐˈsʲijskəj fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨɪ (Federal'naya sluzhba okhrany Rossiyskoy Federatsii)), also known as the FGS of Russia ( rus, ФСО России, p=ɛf ɛs ˌo rɐˈsʲiɪ), is a federal government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of several high-ranking state officials, mandated by the relevant law, including the President of Russia, as well as certain federal properties. It traces its origin to the USSR's Ninth Chief Directorate of the KGB and later Presidential Security Service (SBP) led by KGB general Alexander Korzhakov. On May 27, 1996, the law "On State Protection" reorganized the GUO (Glavnoye Upravlenie Okhrani) into the FSO (Federal Protection Service). Under article 7 of the law, "the President of the Russian Federation, while in office, shall ...
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Nuclear Power Plants In Russia
Russia is one of the world's largest producers of nuclear energy. In 2020 total electricity generated in nuclear power plants in Russia was 215.746 TWh, 20.28% of all electric power plant generation. The installed gross capacity of Russian nuclear reactors is 29.4 GW in December 2020. Recent history In accord with legislation passed in 2001, all Russian civil reactors are operated by Rosenergoatom. More recently in 2007 Russian Parliament adopted the law "On the peculiarities of the management and disposition of the property and shares of organizations using nuclear energy and on relevant changes to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation", which created Atomenergoprom - a holding company for all Russian civil nuclear industry, including Energoatom, nuclear fuel producer and supplier TVEL, uranium trader Tekhsnabexport (Tenex) and nuclear facilities constructor Atomstroyexport. The overnight cost of construction in the seventies was a low 800 $/kW in 2016 dollars. In ...
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Politsiya
The Police of Russia () is the national Law enforcement in Russia, law enforcement agency of Russia, operating under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs from . It was established on by decree of Peter the Great, and in 2011, it replaced the Militsiya (Russia), Militsiya, the former Police, police service. The Police of Russia operates according to the law "s:ru:Федеральный закон от 07.02.2011 № 3-ФЗ, On police" (Закон "о полиции"), as approved by the Federal Assembly (Russia), Federal Assembly, and subsequently Bill (law)#Approval, signed into law on February 7, 2011, by the then President of Russia, President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev. History The system was created in order to protect public order and fight against crime in the Russian Empire. It was reorganized on March 1, 2011, under the Russian Federation, except for existing structures not related to the Ministry of Internal Affairs ...
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Russian Gendarmerie
The Separate Corps of Gendarmes () was the uniformed security police of the Imperial Russian Army in the Russian Empire during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its main responsibilities were law enforcement and state security. The responsibilities of the Gendarmes also included the execution of court orders, pursuit of fugitives, riot control, and detainment of "unusual" criminals. Gendarmes could also be assigned to assist local police and officials. Establishment The precursors of the Corps were the Imperial Army Gendarmerie regiment (formed in 1815 and based on the Borisoglebsk Dragoon Regiment) and Gendarmerie units of the Separate Corps of the Internal Guards (raised 1811). Following the 1825 Decembrist revolt, the new Russian Emperor, Nicholas I, established the office of the Chief of Gendarmes in July 1826 and appointed General Count Alexander Benkendorf to it; all of the gendarmes were subordinate to the Chief. Benkendorf was also appointed executive director of t ...
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SOBR
The Special Rapid Response Unit or SOBR (), from 2002 to 2011 known as OMSN (''Otryad Militsii Spetsial'nogo Naznacheniya'', Special Police Unit), is a spetsnaz unit of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya).With their military equipment, uniforms and training, the OMON and SOBR constitute a rapid reaction and rapid insertion paramilitary police force available to the regular police - normally deployable at the discretion of a police local command. They serve a similar function to a police tactical unit (PTU). Groups named "SOBR" also operate in other post-Soviet countries - such as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. History SOBR was formed on 10 February 1992, and was subordinated to the "Directorate for combating the Organized Crime" under the Russian Interior Ministry ( MVD). SOBR units were composed of senior-ranking police officers, better trained than the members of OMON (which is a cross between riot police and gendarmerie (paramilitary police)), and tasked with PTU oper ...
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OMON
OMON is a system of military special police units within the Armed Forces of Russia. It previously operated within the structures of the Soviet and Russian Ministries of Internal Affairs (MVD). Originating as the special forces unit of the Soviet Militsiya in 1988, it has played major roles in several armed conflicts during and following the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union. OMON is much larger and better known than SOBR, another special-police branch of the National Guard of Russia. In modern contexts, OMON serves as a riot police group, or as a gendarmerie-like paramilitary force. OMON units also exist in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and other post-Soviet states. However, some post-Soviet units have changed names and acronyms. Russian speakers commonly refer to OMON officers as ''omonovtsy'' (; singular: omonovyets – ). On 5 April 2016 OMON became part of the newly-established National Guard of Russia, ending its years as part of the MVD. The MVD continues to ...
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Internal Troops Of Russia
The Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation () was a paramilitary force of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from 1991 to 2016. The Internal Troops was a gendarmerie-like force that supported the Police of Russia, Russian police, dealt with crowd control during riots and internal conflicts, and guarded highly-important facilities such as nuclear power plants. The Internal Troops was involved in all conflicts and violent disturbances in modern Russia, including the First Chechen War, First and Second Chechen Wars, where it fell under direct military command during wartime and fulfilled missions of local defence and Rear Area, rear area security. The Internal Troops consisted of both Military volunteer, volunteers and conscripts, which caused the number of active service members to fluctuate, with less than 200,000 upon their disestablishment from a peak strength of 350,000, and had experienced ...
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National Guard Of Russia
The Federal Service of Troops of National Guard of the Russian Federation (), officially known as the (),#Official website, Official website is a federal executive body which is responsible for law enforcement, internal security, counter-terrorism and riot control of the Russia, Russian Federation. It is an independent agency that reports directly to the President of Russia, under the president's powers as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Russian Armed Forces and Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Russian Security Council. , the National Guard consisted of approximately 340,000 personnel in 84 units across Russia. It includes the forces of the former Internal Troops of Russia, SOBR, OMON, and other internal military forces outside of the Russian Armed Forces. The National Guard is separate from the Armed Forces. It became a federal executive body in 2016 by a law signed by President Vladimir Putin. The National Guard states that its mis ...
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Russian Armed Forces
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia. They are organized into three service branches—the Russian Ground Forces, Ground Forces, Russian Navy, Navy, and Russian Aerospace Forces, Aerospace Forces—two independent combat arms (the Strategic Rocket Forces and Russian Airborne Forces, Airborne Forces), and the Special Operations Forces (Russia), Special Operations Forces Command. The Russian Armed Forces are the List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel, world's fifth largest military force, with about one million Active duty, active-duty personnel and close to two million Military reserve force, reservists. They maintain the Russia and weapons of mass destruction, world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, possess the world's second-largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines, and are the only armed forces outside the United States Armed Forces, United States and Pe ...
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Military Police (Russia)
The Military Police of Russia (, VP) is the uniformed law enforcement branch of the Russian Armed Forces, which is known by the official name of Military Police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (), and it is operated by the Ministry of Defence (Russia), Ministry of Defence. The Chief of Military Police is Ex officio member, ''ex officio'' the First Deputy Minister of Defence. The current Chief of Military Police is Colonel General Sergey Kuralenko who replaced Lieutenant General Vladimir Ivanovsky since February 2020. Structure and Mission Mission The Army's Military Police provide an important function in the full spectrum of Army operations as a member of the Maneuver, Fires, and Effects division. The Military Police provides expertise in police, detainment and stability operations in order to enhance security and enable mobility. The Army's Military Police can be utilized in direct combat and during peacetime. The Military Police have five main functions: # ...
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