Intelligence

MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

INTRODUCTION

Functions and Organization
Internal Security Troops
Special Purpose Police (OMON)
Special Purpose Detachments
Special Rapid Response Unit [SOBR]
Leadership
Control by the Party

MVD, JUDICIAL ORGANS, AND NONPOLITICAL CRIME

Socialist Legality
The Procuracy
Military Justice
The Judiciary and the Legal Profession
Legal Codes and Abuses of the System
Nonpolitical Crime and Punishment

Internal Troops - Czarist Period

Internal Troops - Soviet Period

Post Soviet Developments

Recent Developments

MVD Internal Troops

MVD Internal Troops - Order of Battle

Links

• MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

References

• Russia WORLD FACTBOOK OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS Ilya V. Nikiforov - 1995
• Latest Data on the Performance of Internal Affairs Agencies and Internal Troops in 1996 Ministry of Internal Affairs - MVD - 20 February 1997

• RUSSIA'S INTERNAL FORCES: HOT SPOT STABILIZER WITHIN RUSSIA by Mr. Timothy L. Thomas - Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement, Vol 3, Winter 1994, No 3, pp 509-525.
• Selected Papers from the Conference "International Terrorism: New Assessments" March 24-26, 1997, Moscow Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, Volume 6, Number 2, Autumn 1997, Frank Cass, London.
• Anatoliy Sergeevich Kulikov: Policeman, Power Minister, Deputy Prime Minister...Politician? Mr. Timothy L. Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement Vol. 7, No. 1 (Summer 1998), pp. 149-178
• Restructuring and Reform in Russia's MVD: Good Idea, Bad Timing? by Mr. Timothy L. Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement Vol. 7, No. 2 (Autumn 1998), pp. 96-106
• Russian Internal Troops and Security Challenges in the 1990s by Colonel General Anatoliy S. Kulikov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Commander-in-Chief of Russian Internal Troops -- Low-Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, Frank Cass, London, Volume 3, Autumn 1994, Number 2.