Abstract
This chapter examines the larger social and political context of the Russian police. Recent studies about police corruption in Southern District (Rostov Region) and North Caucasus (Karachaevo-Cherkessia) are particularly enlightening on this topic. Both districts underwent a reform from the Militsiya into the police. The reform process was initiated in 2011, with a plan to conclude it by 2013. By the end of the period, both MVD District Headquarters reported to Moscow on successful transformation. During informal interviews, several potential survey respondents expressed mixed feelings about the reforms. They mentioned that they had been trained at the Police Academy by the supervisors who served in Soviet Militsiya and who rejected and disapproved of the new reforms.
Author appreciates Springer publisher and the coauthors Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Qasim Haq, and M.R. Haberfeld for permission to use some part of previously published findings in Kutnjak Ivkovich, S. & M. R. Haberfeld (Eds.) Police Integrity across the World. New York Springer.
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Notes
- 1.
S. Cheloukhine and M. Haberfeld (2011), p. 125.
- 2.
S. Cheloukhine et al. p. 156.
- 3.
Russia’s Militsiya now history, gives way to police. Russia Today, 2/28. 2011. https://www.rt.com/politics/militia-police-nurgaliev-address/ Accessed 2/3/2017.
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S. Cheloukhine et al. (2015), p. 156.
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Cheloukhine, et al. p. 160.
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Ibid, p. 157.
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Galeotti M. (2011) Medvedev’s Law on Police: A quiet revolution.
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Term and a phenomenon of organized crime were foreign to Militsiya, and officers could not operate or press charges due to lacking legislation in Criminal Code. Growing organized crime activity in the newly established capitalist economy and old Soviet Criminal Code put Militsiya in position bystanders.
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Cheloukhine (2008), p. 198.
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Cheloukhine and Haberfeld (2011), p. 120.
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Russian Analytical Digest, p. 1.
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Ibid. p. 2.
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Ibid. p. 3.
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Ibid. p. 4.
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Kutnjak-Ivković and O’Connor-Shelley (2008), p. 447.
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Kosals (2010). p. 3.
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Ibid.
- 18.
Kolennikova et al. (2008), p. 10.
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Gudkov L. and B. Dubin (2006), p. 1.
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Kosals (2010), p. 3.
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Kosals (2010), p. 4.
- 22.
Semukhina (2014a), p. 12.
- 23.
Cheloukhine and Haberfeld (2011), p. 120.
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Cheloukhine and Haberfeld (2011), p. 121.
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Kosals (2010), p. 4.
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Osipov, N. Moskovskii OMON blizok k buntur.
- 27.
Ibid.
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Dymovsky (2009).
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- 30.
Semukhina and Reynolds (2013).
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Cheloukhine, S. (2017). Law on Militsiya and Police Integrity in Russia. In: Policing in Russia. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61100-6_2
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