Law enforcement in Russia

• Ministry of Internal Affairs:
• The Police of Russia ({{Transliteration|ru|politsiya}}) 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 the FSB and responsible for border protection, surveillance and coast guard.
• Federal Customs Service
• The Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM) is responsible for the civil defence regulation, protection from fire and has own troops.[http://www.mchs.gov.ru/index.php?lang=eng Site of EMERGECOM of Russia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619000039/http://www.mchs.gov.ru/index.php?lang=eng |date=2010-06-19 }}
• Ministry of Defence
• Russian Military Police provides the service police function for all branches of the Russian Armed Forces.
• The National Guard (formerly Internal Troops, OMON, and SOBR) provide a gendarmerie function, supporting the Politsiya and dealing with large-scale riots and internal armed conflicts. They also provide security for highly-important facilities (such as nuclear power plants).
• The Federal Protective Service of Russia is responsible for the protection of Russian state property and high-ranking government personnel, including the President of Russia.
• Presidential Security Service - concerned with the tasks related to the protection of the President of Russia.

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Prisons in Russia are administered by the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and can be categorized under four types of facilities: pre-trial institutions; educative or juvenile labor colonies; corrective labor colonies; and prisons.{{sfn|Roth|2006|p=231}}

The corrective colony ({{langx|ru|Исправительно-трудовая колония, ИТК}}, ispravitelno-trudovaya koloniya, ITK) is the most common, with 760 institutions in 2004 across the many administrative divisions of Russia.{{sfn|Roth|2006|p=231}} There were also eight prisons, 62 juvenile facilities, and 192 pre-trial facilities in 2004.{{sfn|Roth|2006|p=232}}

• Crime in Russia
• Russian Intelligence Community

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• {{cite book |last=Roth |first=Mitchel P. |year=2006 |title=Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTH31DgbTzgC&pg=PA230 |location=Westport, Conn. |publisher=Greenwood Press |pages=230–232 |isbn=0-313-32856-0 |oclc=859896143 }}

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