Internal Troops (full name Internal Troops of the MVD), now called the Federal Guard are the 250,000 strong uniformed military mobile force of the Russian security forces (MVD) and are used to deal with major disturbances and internal security matters. It also provides security for nuclear weapons stockpiles. The Internal troops are an official part of the Military of Russia and are trained as motorized rifle troops with riot or crowd control training. cccgs technical n00bs are pretty noobish ... The Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (MVD) (Министерство внутренних дел) was the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the imperial Russia, late USSR, and still bears the same name in the Russian Federation. ... // History Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Russians have discussed rebuilding a viable, cohesive fighting force out of the remaining parts of the former Soviet armed forces. ...

The Organization of Internal Troops comprises Internal troops Commands, Formations, Military Units, Military Training Institutions and the Institutions for Internal Troops Activities, Maintenance, and Bodies of Internal Troops Administration. The largest units are the Regiment, units are located in all major cities.

History

The Internal Troops were first formed in 1919 under the NKVD and remained there with all the mergers and splitting up of Soviet internal security services and ended up under the control of the MVD. Black Ravens by Boris Vladimirski, a depiction of the cars used by NKVD agents. ...

Personnel

Strength has also flucuated and was about 350,000 at its height. It has always consisted of both two year conscripts and volunteers. It officers graduated from at least four schools and a Political officer school. Rumors abound of an officer shortage since 1998.

Missions

• Public Order - Assist the militia, suppress demonstrations, revolts, riots, and strikes.
• Security - Guards "key" state instutions, nuclear facilities, special storage depots
• Prison Guards and prisoner Transport - formerly guarded and operated the Gulags, transports prisoners
• National Defence - conducts rear area security operations, operates POW and penal Units.
• Possible counterweight to the military, especially during the Soviet era.

Gulag (Russian: ГУЛАГ ▶ (help· info)) is an acronym for Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies. Anne Applebaum, in her book Gulag: A History, explains: Literally, the word GULAG is an acronym, meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ...

Uses

Up to 25,000 were deployed to Chechnya, this included specialized rapid response troops and special military detachments. Capital Grozny Area - total - % water 78th - 15,500 km² - negligible Population - Total - Density 49th - est. ...

References

• "Internal Troops of the MVD SSSR", by William Fuller
• "Soviet Union, a County Study", by the Library of Congress

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See Also

• First Chechen War
• Second Chechen War