This is one of the examples of Eastern European adaptations of this name.įunctionally, Ministries of Internal Affairs are mostly police agencies. This particular example is a Dacia 1310 from 1982. Romanian Miliția car in the typical livery it featured starting with the early 1970s. Its regional branches are officially called Departments of Internal Affairs-city department of internal affairs, raion department of internal affairs, oblast department of internal affairs, etc. Eventually, it was replaced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russian: МВД, MVD Ukrainian: МВС, MVS Belorussian: МУС, MUS), which is now the official full name for the militsiya forces in the respective countries. The militsiya was reaffirmed in Russia on October 28 (November 10, according to the new style dating), 1917 under the official name of the "Workers' and Peasants' Militsiya", in further contrast to what the Bolsheviks called the " bourgeois class protecting" police. The name militsiya as applied to police forces originates from a Russian Provisional Government decree dated April 17, 1917, and from early Soviet history: both the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks intended to associate their new law-enforcement authority with the self-organisation of the people and to distinguish it from the czarist police. Soviet militsiya officer's cap cockade (service/parade version).
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