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Encyclopedia > Berkut
Berkut is also a Eurasian subspecies of Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetos daphanea.

Berkut (Golden Eagle) is the special-reaction team of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstvo Vnutrishnykh Sprav, or MVS). They are derived from the same branch of the Russian and Belarusian Spetsnaz, who in turn came from Soviet special forces.




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Berkut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (86 words)
Berkut (Slavic languages Cyrillic: Берку́т) may refer to:
Berkut (Ukraine), the special-reaction teams of the Ukrainian militsiya
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
Berkut (Ukraine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (318 words)
Berkut (Ukrainian: Берку́т) is a special reaction force of Ukrainian militsiya (police) within the Internal Ministry (national police authority).
Berkut is the national successor of the Soviet OMON, responsible for high-risk police operations including hostage crises and riots.
Berkut teams participated in many actions of Leonid Kuchma's regime against the opposition.
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