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MeMyselfAndI
Jan 19th 2012, 06:15 PM
I recently read that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affirs' Inner Troops
http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/0/53/83/53083322_Vityaz.jpg
were expanded from 200,000 to 350,000.

Currently, the Inner Troops are an all-purpose force.

Hard trained
http://distrib.data.cod.ru/photos/3/4/f/1e08c0b8f4ba5e4593404ed78835ff43.jpg
http://bm.img.com.ua/berlin/storage/orig/eefcd566cbef33597e8d1a37d197c081.jpg
http://vasi.net/uploads/podbor/z7922/6.jpg

They are deployed in North Caucasus, fighting the separatist insurgency there
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5508/wait4me90.72/0_5dd5d_221c9624_XXL.jpghttp://extreme-life.info/images/soldat.jpg
http://imagehost.spark-media.ru/i3/F6BFBA4A-CD9D-66FD-9508-DE9E162AD530.jpg

Their SOBR (Collective Rapid Responce Units, Russian SWAT) crush prison mutinees, take down particularly dangerous criminals, etc
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5707/wait4me90.72/0_5dd5c_44518c39_XL.jpg
http://www.b-port.com/mediafiles/photogallery/2008/297/33.jpg
http://www.b-port.com/mediafiles/photogallery/2008/297/39.jpg

They also have various regional Specnaz (special forces) units, like Vityaz, Zubr, and others
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/6/5/3/7d80f75fc6a460823f4b5f7dab172356.jpg
Those are their most elite forces, with snipers
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/e/8/7/5815f53990642566c56d9b2f687d278e.jpg
The... "ninjas" who fly in on ropes through your window
http://www.b-port.com/mediafiles/photogallery/2008/297/38.jpg
Hostage resque
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/b/e/a/7ebbac7fd81d89a91934de84baf6faeb.jpg
etc.
http://www.rostobl.ru/sites/rostovregion.info/files/imagecache/large/images/story/2011/09/26/1317028191/_IT24227.jpg
MeMyselfAndI
Jan 19th 2012, 06:16 PM
http://www.rostobl.ru/sites/rostovregion.info/files/imagecache/large/images/story/2011/09/26/1317027877/_VEN7089.jpghttp://rostobl.ru/sites/rostovregion.info/files/imagecache/large/images/story/2011/09/26/1317027737/_VEN7068.jpg

They have all sorts of equipment available to them.

Tigr trucks, like shown 3d picture back
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/f/e/f/cbd47fea42596d8cabda573a78e79fef.jpg

Skorpion trucks and different variations of BTR-80
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/8/5/4/d211b77dcf2101af4bb1ad06a900d458.jpg

BTR-82A
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/c/1/4/152987b107e4b4bedf3f6244f4cdf41c.jpg

Diffrent helicopters
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/f/1/f/25929403c8ecc6fc60f31e2d61b5ff1f.jpg
including military Mi-8s
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/7/0/2/bd7e55d89e71525668d5c89c0b9d1207.jpg
http://photos.streamphoto.ru/a/4/a/2aef080772fef26b0333046368a3ea4a.jpghttp://www.nevaphoto.com/images/vert_art_26.jpghttp://www.nevaphoto.com/other/poly_vv_15.jpg

Recently, as I wrote, large numbers of Inner Troops were deployed to Moscow, during the anti-government protests
http://www.vvmvd.ru/netcat_files/294/210/h_2ca215c0c66c36ed6a44b189df7c07d9http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3/49505424.122/0_70578_ccbe9dee_XL.jpghttp://image.newsru.com/pict/id/large/1435026_20111224105440.gif
Their riot units are often and were in this case backed by ABS-40 armored anti-riot water cannon trucks
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Internal_troops_ABS-40_riot_control_vehicle.jpg
also known as Lavina or "Avalanche".

Lately, women have been allowed to join the Inner Troops Forces
http://rkomi.ru/content/photos/395/Chechnya05.jpg
she may be smiling, this woman from the Mari El Republic, but she is one woman in a all-male Internal unit being deployed to Chechnya. These type of girls we call pantera lol

Anyway, the Internal Minister, Rashid Nurgaliev, now wants his forces to also have, belive it or not, tank units (!). He wants either new ones established, or a armored division taken from the Army, "who has much more than they need in any case", and passed to Internal Troops...
Americano
Jan 19th 2012, 08:11 PM
I like the efficiency factor of centralized specialists for dangerous operations involving civilian criminals. In the US our conglomeration of law enforcement agencies each have their own departments performing those tasks. One unit serving local police, state police, sheriffs, FBI, DEA, marshals, immigration and national guard civil requirements makes a lot of fiscal and logistical sense.
Donkey
Jan 19th 2012, 08:49 PM
I like the efficiency factor of centralized specialists for dangerous operations involving civilian criminals. In the US our conglomeration of law enforcement agencies each have their own departments performing those tasks. One unit serving local police, state police, sheriffs, FBI, DEA, marshals, immigration and national guard civil requirements makes a lot of fiscal and logistical sense.

Yes it makes totalitarian fascism much easier.
Americano
Jan 19th 2012, 09:02 PM
Yes it makes totalitarian fascism much easier.

How so? In the US those operations are currently the responsibility of a multitude of different agency departments at all government levels with most sitting idle polishing boots when not in service. Training, operating tactics/procedures, evidence fathering, forensics and laws are identical. Why not consolidate labor and equipment into one entity tasked for those functions and eliminate massive duplication?