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Vladimir Kolokoltsev opened the ceremony of awarding the winners and laureates of the MIA of Russia International Contest “Shield and Pen” (The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Sep 2016
The winners in this category were correspondent of the NTV program 'Emergency' Anna Finogina (the story 'The inspector was handed over an award for rescuing 300 children', the commander of OMON of the MIA Administration for the Tula Region Konstantin Obushev (article '70 years-long combat'), and a senior reviewer of the division of information and ......

Putin Taps Duma Speaker As New Foreign Spy Boss In Latest Kremlin Shakeup

Edit Radio Free Europe 22 Sep 2016
President Vladimir Putin has appointed parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin as head of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, the latest in a series of personnel firings, appointments, and shuffles at the Kremlin and top security agencies.   ...   ... The new agency absorbed two other key units of the Interior Ministry -- the OMON riot police, and the SOBR rapid reaction paramilitary police -- effectively gutting the ministry ... ....

KGB 2.0? Report Says Kremlin Plan Afoot For Major Security-Service Shakeup

Edit Radio Free Europe 19 Sep 2016
MOSCOW -- Russia plans to create a super security agency called the Ministry of State Security (MGB), the name once given to Josef Stalin's Soviet spy apparatus before it was renamed the KGB after his death, Kommersant newspaper reports ... The report follows a major law enforcement shakeup in April with the creation of the National Guard, a new body that oversees Interior Ministry troops, OMON riot police, and SOBR special forces ... ....

The evil hopefuls looking to be the next CEO of ISIS

Edit New York Post 16 Sep 2016
Western forces celebrated news of his death, while his able followers and recruits labelled him a martyr. But while Islamic State’s leader Abu Mohammed al-Adnani is dead, the terror group is far from defeated ... Their credentials speak for themselves. ABU AHMAD AL-ALWANI ... Before joining the terror group, Khalimov commanded Tajikistan’s elite OMON paramilitary police force and received military training in the US, the CEP reveal. ABU LUQMAN....

Tajikistan Probes IS 'Threats' Purportedly Made By Fugitive Police Commander

Edit Radio Free Europe 06 Sep 2016
Tajik authorities are reportedly investigating threats purportedly made by a former Tajik police colonel, who defected to the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria ... Halimov, the former commander of the Tajik Interior Ministry's special forces, known as OMON, joined IS in April 2015 ... ....

Tajik Authorities Look Into Reports Of Top IS Post For Fugitive Officer

Edit Radio Free Europe 05 Sep 2016
He did not elaborate. On August 30, the U.S ... Halimov, the former commander of the Tajik Interior Ministry's special forces, known as OMON, joined IS in April 2015 ... ....

U.S. Offers Bounty For Fugitive Tajik Colonel

Edit Radio Free Europe 30 Aug 2016
Halimov, the former commander of the Tajik Interior Ministry's special forces, known as OMON, joined IS in April 2015 ... ....

Moscow, August 1991: a world-changing failure

Edit Open Democracy 23 Aug 2016
25 years ago, an attempted takeover by communist hardliners led to the Soviet Union's collapse. The reverberations still continue. Moscow, 1991. Flickr/Ron Knight ... But it was a strange death, reflecting the strange life of the beast itself ... On 21 August, the plotters gave up ... Why didn’t the various armed forces – the Red Army, the OMON troops, the KGB – defend their state? Political science has yet to produce an answer to this conundrum ... ....

Comment on Three key tests for any Brexit deal by Alric Six

Edit The Spectator 10 Aug 2016
What immediately stands out from your list is how many of these incidents directly or indirectly involve Russia or the Soviet Union. So if there is one common thread it’s Russia and its predecessor ... Hardly a war. Of the rest the issue in Kosovo is one incident not 4 and is actually only 3 on its original web page ... The Cherbourg incident ... You missed Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts (that makes 36 Russian incidents) ... ....

Bear baiting

Edit The Spectator 22 Jun 2016
Oh those Russians. When they’re not beating up English football fans, they’re cheating at the Olympics. They occupy other countries and shoot down civilian airliners, then pretend it wasn’t them. They’re helping Assad win the Syrian civil war ... The message is ... They’ve staged bloody riots in Moscow before, notoriously one in 2010 which left the brutal Omon riot police running like rabbits ... ....

Comment by Konstantin Dolgov, the Foreign Ministry’s Special Representative for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, on the situation around Konstantin Nikulin (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
(Source ... According to information from Vilnius, the Lithuanian Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal filed by Russian citizen Konstantin Nikulin, a former member of the Riga OMON special police force, against the May 11, 2011 ruling by the Vilnius District Court, which declared him guilty of shooting the staff of the Medininkai border checkpoint on July 31, 1991 and handed down a life sentence to him ... (noodl. 34031251) ....

Putin has turned Russia into a ticking time-bomb only he can defuse

Edit Business Insider 30 May 2016
Russian President Putin chairs meeting with military officials at Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi. Here’s an alarming observation ... The problem for Putin is Russia doesn’t seem have a long-term vision any more ... And ... Putin said its duties would be to handle the fight against terrorism and organised crime, while also taking over the duties of the OMON and SOBR agencies, essentially the Russian version of riot police and SWAT teams....

Run of the brave, devoted to the Victory Day, takes place in Minsk (National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
(Source. National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus). All-Belarusian adventure track and field meet 'Run of the brave' devoted to the Victory Day took place in Minsk on May 9, 2016. About 600 participants competed on the special 2 km route with obstacles in Victory Park ... Men. ... OMON....
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