- 17:31 10/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 10 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
President Dmitry Medvedev praised the reformed police while urging them to follow through on journalist investigations and voter complaints, as well as refrain from “hysterics.”
- 21:28 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
The number of attacks on Russian police officers reached 6,000 last year, almost twice the 2010 figure, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Tuesday.
- 16:05 03/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law prohibiting policemen from joining, establishing or funding political parties, a press secretary for Russia's deputy interior minister said on Saturday.
- 06:46 22/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss the reformation of the country's Interior Ministry with police officers in the city of Tver later on Saturday.
- 20:50 02/10/2011 VLADIKAVKAZ, October 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Interior Ministry employed 26,000 people, who had not passed recertification as part of President Dmitry Medvedev's reform aimed at improving the performance of the country's law-enforcement authorities, the Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Sunday.
- 21:56 19/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti)
Russian police officers working in positions where they may be exposed to the temptations of bribery and corruption will have to take lie-detector tests, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Friday.
- 13:21 16/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti)
Only 28 percent of Russians believe the country's police force will improve following a much-hyped police reform, a survey showed.
- 14:43 24/07/2011 GROZNY, July 24 (RIA Novosti)
Over 90 percent of Russian police have passed their performance review as part of the ongoing police reform, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Sunday.
- 10:46 27/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russian police officers will be voluntarily checked on lie detectors but the refusal to be tested could spoil their future career in law enforcement, the head of the Russian Interior Ministry's internal affairs division, Lt.-Gen. Yury Draguntsov, said on Monday.
- 10:39 13/06/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Police major general, Alexander Trofimov a new interior minister in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, Kremlin press service said on Monday.
- 14:15 25/05/2011
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has dismissed speculation that the country's newly rebranded police force would copy "Western models."
- 15:36 23/05/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on Monday to establish advisory panels at regional police headquarters as part of sweeping measures to reform the country's police force.
- 18:28 07/05/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed another four Interior Ministry generals, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.
- 13:17 28/04/2011
The heads of the Russian Interior Ministry's finance and legal departments have been sacked, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
- 19:16 21/03/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday said that a documentary or a feature film dedicated to Russia's police should be produced.
- 17:04 21/03/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired six police generals, the Kremlin press service said on Monday.
- 18:31 18/03/2011
A new law on police reforms came into effect on March 1, 2011, giving the Interior Ministry until the end of the year to complete all of the necessary reforms and a whole new look. Reforms include retesting of the current police force, new uniforms, introducing politeness and changing the name from the soviet-era “militia” to the “police” more commonly accepted throughout the world.
- 14:15 03/03/2011
Russia's interior minister said on Thursday he wants the creation of a special unit of smart, tech-savvy cops to deal with information-related crimes.
- 11:02 02/03/2011
Moscow city authorities said on Wednesday they had allocated 14 billion rubles ($486.6 million) to provide for a pay increase for officers of law enforcement agencies responsible for security in the capital.
- 19:23 01/03/2011
A RIA Novosti correspondent visited a police station in western Moscow on Tuesday, the day that a police-reform law came into force in Russia.
- 11:32 25/02/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired seven high-ranking police officers as part of his drive to improve policing in the country, the Kremlin announced on Friday.
- 13:51 10/02/2011
The new police bill developed under a large-scale reform of Russian police stipulates changes of the name of Russian law enforcers from the Russian "militsiya" to "politsiya,", introduces a three-stage selection test for police candidates and cuts the number of officers by 20%.
- 14:25 07/02/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a bill significantly cutting the number of police officers in Russia and introducing reforms intended to improve the image of the country's law enforcement system.
- 13:24 02/02/2011
The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, approved a police reform bill on Wednesday aimed at restoring public trust in Russia's police force.
- 19:04 28/01/2011
The lower house of the Russian parliament on Friday approved a police reform bill in its third reading.
- 04:02 26/01/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed public fears over a new draft law on police currently being discussed by legislators.
- 17:10 21/01/2011
The colors of the new Russian police uniform will probably resemble those of Czarist Russia's police outfits, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Friday.
- 11:33 03/11/2010
Russian police officers could be restricted from joining political parties in order to ensure anonymity in police affairs, the first deputy Interior Minister said on Wednesday.
- 15:24 01/11/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted a revised draft of the federal law “On Police” after it was presented for public discussion.
- 14:18 01/11/2010
Russia's Interior Ministry will follow up and check every complaint made against the country's police officers, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Monday.
- 18:42 30/10/2010
The draft federal law on police, recently submitted by the president the State Duma, restricts the authorities of policemen to the territory, which lies under the control of their police units, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
- 14:42 29/10/2010
The number of Russia traffic police officers will be cut by approximately 20% as part of the country's overall police reform, the chief inspector said on Friday.
- 06:15 28/10/2010
A draft federal law on Russia's police reform, submitted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, will come into force no earlier than next spring.
- 21:47 27/10/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted a draft federal law on police to the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, the Kremlin reported on Wednesday.
- 12:49 04/10/2010
A revised police bill will be submitted to Russia's lower house of parliament within the next three weeks, the State Duma security committee chairman said on Monday.
- 18:24 23/09/2010
The definition of "police" in Russia's revised police bill is too confusing and unclear, say internet users cited in an Interior Ministry report on online discussions.
- 18:16 11/09/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved an initiative by the United Russia party to set up a comprehensive list of police powers, party leader Boris Gryzlov said on Saturday.
- 06:03 09/09/2010
About 217 billion rubles ($7 billion) will be allocated from the Russian budget for police reforms in 2012-2013.
- 07:18 20/08/2010
Only 11 percent of Russians support an initiative by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to change the name of Russian law enforcers from the Russian "militsia" to the internationally accepted word "police".
- 09:40 09/08/2010
A new police law in Russia put on the Internet for public discussion includes restrictions on how much force law enforcers may use against individuals.
- 13:42 24/06/2010
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Thursday the lack of cooperation between police forces in Russia and neighboring countries has consolidated the criminal world across the ex-Soviet space.
- 06:00 05/05/2010
The lower house of the Russian parliament will consider on Wednesday a bill tightening rules regulating the employment of police officers.
- 12:19 16/04/2010
Proposed tougher punishments for police officers convicted of crimes should also apply to all security service personnel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
- 10:50 16/03/2010
President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed a deputy Russian justice minister and appointed a new interior minister in the volatile North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia as part of his efforts to improve law enforcement in Russia, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
- 19:39 10/03/2010
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Wednesday that it was unacceptable for traffic police to force owners of private cars to use their vehicles to form roadblocks.
- 21:50 09/03/2010
The number of complaints against Moscow police officers declined by 47% in the first two months of 2010 in comparison with the same timeframe in 2009, the Moscow police chief said on Tuesday in a live TV broadcast.
- 02:35 06/03/2010
Rights activists will hold a rally to demand police reform on downtown Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square on Saturday.
- 18:01 03/03/2010
Russian human rights activists have been granted permission to hold a central Moscow rally for radical police reform on March 6, a leading activist said on Wednesday.
- 17:59 27/02/2010
Efforts to streamline Russia's law enforcement agencies will continue, especially in the volatile North Caucasus, President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday
- 23:00 18/02/2010
About half of the 17 top Russian police officials discharged on Thursday were dismissed over violations committed by subordinates while others were removed to bring in new blood, a Kremlin source said.
- 20:11 18/02/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has discharged 15 top police generals as part of ongoing efforts to reform the police force, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
- 15:39 18/02/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed on Thursday to introduce tougher punishment for crimes committed by police officers than for those carried out by civilians.
- 04:45 30/01/2010
Investigators are looking into the death of a police officer, who was apparently shot by his colleague.
- 16:41 28/12/2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - There is not a police force in the world that has not felt the impact of regular reforms. Unfortunately, such efforts equally regularly either peter out or end in a very abbreviated result, with the exception of perhaps two countries - Nigeria and Ghana - whose police contingents are believed to be the most corrupt in the world and no longer amenable to any tricks of the human mind. The Nigerians and the Ghanaians are still arguing which of them is the worse, and neither can win the argument.
- 05:20 27/12/2009
An unidentified attacker murdered a police officer using a knife early on Sunday in southwestern Moscow
- 04:14 25/12/2009
The presidential decree to streamline the law enforcement structure would make police more effective and build up its prestige, the Russian interior minister has said.
- 22:09 24/12/2009
Russian lawyers expressed doubt Thursday that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's decree to streamline the law enforcement structure would be effective and said society should change first.
- 20:25 24/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed Thursday a decree to streamline the law enforcement structure, in particular ordering staff cuts and instituting the rotation of senior personnel at the Interior Ministry.
- 18:54 24/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on Interior Ministry personnel cuts, the Kremlin press service said Thursday
- 13:52 24/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday he will sign a law later in the day to reform the Interior Ministry.
- 12:53 24/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday he will sign a law later in the day to reform the Interior Ministry.
- 07:34 22/12/2009
The Moscow City Court opens on Tuesday hearings in a case of former police chief Denis Yevsyukov, who killed two and wounded seven in a south Moscow supermarket in late April.
- 13:30 11/12/2009
A court in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia sentenced a police officer on Friday to two years in prison for killing a journalist in 2008.
- 23:22 10/12/2009
A 57-year-old Russian beekeeper who shot dead three people, including two police officers, to avenge the deaths of his children was handed a 23-year jail term in maximum security prison on Thursday.
- 14:44 04/12/2009
The numerical strength of Russia's Interior Ministry troops will be reduced by 14,000 to around 170,000 personnel by 2020, the force commander said on Friday.
- 15:06 03/12/2009
Police crime must be dealt with relentlessly but there should be no discrediting of the force, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
- 23:37 28/11/2009
A police officer who shot his colleague in the head and then turned his weapon on himself near Moscow earlier on Saturday has died in hospital, investigators said.
- 23:43 26/11/2009
Ordinary citizens have the right to defend themselves against police officers who launch illegal attacks on them, Russia's interior minister said Thursday.
- 13:07 24/11/2009
Three Russian police officers suspected of beating a man to death in Moscow were dismissed on Tuesday along with their commander, a police spokesman said.
- 09:59 17/11/2009
A police officer from the Urals city of Severouralsk committed suicide after accidentally shooting a female colleague dead, a spokesman for the regional police department said on Tuesday.
- 15:43 20/10/2009
A Moscow court formally sanctioned on Tuesday the arrest of the interior minister of the Russian east Siberian republic of Buryatia, detained in a smuggling case last week.
- 00:01 19/10/2009
The top police official in the Russian republic of Buryatia in east Siberia has been detained in a smuggling case. The Russian Interior Ministry confirmed the detention but provided no further details.
- 17:04 22/08/2009
Every police officer in Ingushetia will be reevaluated in the near future, Russia's interior minister said on Saturday.
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