Meanings
plural militsiias
- alternativeAlternative spelling of militsia.
Did you report this crime to the militsiia, to some other official, or to a Comrades' Court?
1989, Soviet Interview Project, 1979-1985, part 1, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, →OCLC, page 313 more examples
Respondents were asked to evaluate the competence of six sets of government officials: people in charge of local Soviet organs, the military, the militsiia, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the KGB, and local Party organs.
1993 August, Ellen Carnaghan, “Appendix: Variables Used in the Analysis”, in Alienation, Apathy or Ambivalence? “Don’t Knows” and Democracy in Russia (Studies in Public Policy; 237), Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, published 1994, →OCLC, page 18Already in August 1994, the obkomburo felt it imperative to order the militsiia to organize a campaign against the growing incidence of crime, particularly in the towns.
1999, Kees Boterbloem, “Crime and Punishment”, in Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945–1953, Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, part 2 (The Postwar Years), chapter 5 (Victims: The Penal System), page 157Violet and forced migrations prevailed, which included flows of civilian refugees, active militsiias, and repatriated war prisoners from World War i.
2025 December 8 (indicated as 2026), Zhanna Son, “The Ethnopolitical Situation in the Primor’e”, in The Russian Koreans in the 1920s and 1930s […] (Brill’s Korean Studies Library; 10), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 2 (The Socioeconomic Situation in the Russian Far East […]), page 64
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