What is the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs?

Problem description:

What is the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs? What is the difference between it and the public security system? Which institution is equivalent to our country?

Analysis:

Q: In Russian organizations, there is a department called the Ministry of Internal Affairs. What is it equivalent to China? What is its function?

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is equivalent to the Ministry of Public Security in China, and it is one of the powerful departments in Russia. Its main duty is to protect the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens and maintain legal order.

The original organizational structure of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is complex, which is divided into criminal police service, public security service, rear service and immigration service according to police types, and each service department has a general administration and sub-bureaus. In addition to the central authorities, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has general departments of internal affairs in various federal districts. At present, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has about 649,000 policemen and 94,400 civilians. In July this year, the service department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was merged into 15 departments, and the number of deputy ministers was reduced from 10 to 3.

Unlike China's Ministry of Public Security, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has a General Command of Internal Security Forces, which is responsible for directing and managing the internal security forces. In terms of nature and tasks, Russian internal security forces are equivalent to China's People's Armed Police Force, but the quantity and quality of its weapons and equipment are obviously superior to China's Armed Police Force. At present, the Russian internal security forces are organized into seven internal security zones with a strength of about 654.38+0.86 million. (End)

Excerpt from: Global Times (6th edition, September 24th, 2004)