A Post Through a "Distant" Filter

Yuri Draguntsov, head of the Chief Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) of the MVD, explains how recertification went and how the renewed police force works.     

Strangers Among Their Own

Police Major-General Aleksandr Makarov, head of the Chief Directorate of Internal Security of the MVD of Russia, discusses the work of the Internal Security Service of the MVD.     

Open Up,Police!

Alexei Lapin, head of the Chief Directorate of the MVD for Rostov oblast, talks about changes that have taken place in the ministry in connection with the reorganization of the police force.     

Editor's Introduction : The "New" Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

The Concept for Ensuring Internal Security Within the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs outlines goals, principles, and measures of ensuring internal security, defines threats to internal security and criteria for assessing the state of internal security, assigns responsibility for ensuring internal security, and sets out key areas of protection of internal security in the MVD.     

Dissenting Opinion of Justice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine A.O. Didkivs'kyi Regarding the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 34-rp of December 22, 2009 (Case of the Appointment of Judges to Administrative Positions)

The heads of the financial services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) system discuss the core financial results of the reform of the Ministry: exclusive federal funding of Russian police, new wages structure, and program-oriented budgeting.     

General Kramarev: They Brought up the Reform of the MVD to the Elections and Miscalculated

The former head of the Chief Directorate of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast believes that little has changed in Nurgaliyev's ministry.     

It Is Inexpedient to Repeat Recertification!

Head of the Personnel Directorate of the MVD for the Republic of Mordova Igor' Zubarov discusses the results of recertification and proposals for future police reforms.     

Dissenting Opinion of Justice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine M.A. Markush Regarding the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 8-rp of March 11, 2010 (Case of Cassation Review Procedure)

The large-scale reform of the MVD associated with the creation of the new institution of the police is proceeding in accordance with the special law "On the Police."     

Penal Execution Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) Order No. 77 defines the procedure for departmental control (inspections and checks) of police units and subdivisions by the MVD chiefs.     

The "mini-packer" syndrome. Fatal ingestion of drug containers in Baltimore, Maryland

We report seven fatalities resulting from the ingestion of illicit drugs packaged in condoms, rubber balloons, or plastic bags which were observed in the last 4 years at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of Maryland. All the victims, with the exception of one, were men ranging in age from 19 to 37 years. There was no racial predominance. No drug paraphernalia was found at any scene. In two cases, seizure-like activity was documented. One victim had recently returned from Nigeria; therefore, Lassa fever was initially suspected. Two of the victims were "body packer" contrabanders who had just arrived from Africa. They used body cavities to hide large amounts of heroin to avoid U.S. Customs. The other five cases were "mini-packers," small-time illicit drug dealers who had swallowed a single bag of cocaine to avoid police detection. The possible mechanism of leaking or rupture of the latex container is discussed.     

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 34-rp of December 22, 2009 (Case of the Appointment of Judges to Administrative Positions)

MVD Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev reports on the progress of police reform.     

Rashid Nurgaliyev Had His Chance and Missed It

Two legislators, members of the ruling United Russia party—Andrei Makarov and Aleksandr Khinshtein—demand the resignation of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) Rashid Nurgaliyev for the failings of police reform.     

Law of the Russian Federation "On Noncommercial Organizations" Federal Law No. 7-FZ of January 12, 1996

The majority of militiamen have successfully gone through recertification. But in the opinion of "ordinary Russians" the results of this procedure suffer from lack of objectivity and are unjust.     

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 30-rp of November 26, 2009 (Case of the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada II)

Following the investigation of the police torture in Kazan, Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs will develop a new set of criteria for assessing police performance.     

"The Militia Has Degenerated Before My Eyes"

Corrupt, cruel, mercenary, inefficient-it is precisely militiamen with these attributes who should ideally have been purged from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) system in the course of total recertification. And it was precisely the effectiveness of this process that was seen as the chief condition for the success of the whole MVD reform. Because it is pointless to change structure, functions, and powers or adopt new laws if the same people are going to implement them. But no miracle took place. In many places, the purge proceeded not on the basis of whether a policeman was good or bad, but whether he was loyal or independent, convenient or inconvenient. This is confirmed by the example of the Voronezh precinct militiaman Roman Khabarov. Dismissed from the police force, he talked frankly to Rusrep. Ru about how the law-enforcement system functions today and why the current reform is insufficiently radical.     

"Qualitative Changes Will Not Occur Quickly"

Voronezh oblast Police Chief Aleksandr Sysoev discusses crime rates and initial results of police reform in the first quarter of 2012.     

Comrade Policemen

Five months have passed since the end of the recertification of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) personnel. It was promised that the best would remain and that they would receive decent pay. In the view of many experts, not everything went smoothly-and, indeed, some policemen are themselves discontented. Other observers say that recertification left only professionals of the highest caliber in the ranks of the police force.     

Law of the Russian Federation on Associations of Employers Federal Law No. 156-FZ of November 27, 2002

The return of a presidential-parliamentary form of rule will occur before October 19—that is the deadline set for the Constitutional Court to assess the legality of the 2004 constitutional reform.     

Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations,Federal Law No. 195-FZ of December 30, 2001 [as amended through June 2007]

[Main accusation: ambiguous and complicated formulation of a retainer agreement.—Eds.]

An attorney does not have the right to conclude with a client an agreement containing conditions that are opaque, do not permit of unambiguous interpretation, or can be described only by using expressions such as "the payment is concealed in the column." It is equally impermissible, in view of the special nature of work as an attorney, to combine in a single agreement two contracts that are different in purpose and in legal nature—one to retain an attorney, the other to let premises.