Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia) applies to jurisdiction Russia
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MIA; Russian: Министерство внутренних дел [МВД], Ministerstvo vnutrennih del (MVD)) is the interior ministry of Russia.
The MVD is responsible for law enforcement in Russia through its agencies the Police of Russia, Migration Affairs, Drugs Control, Traffic Safety, the Centre for Combating Extremism, and the Investigative Department. The MVD is headquartered in Zhitnaya Street 16 in Yakimanka, Moscow.
The MVD claims ancestry from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire founded in 1802 by Tsar Alexander I which became the interior ministry of the Russian Republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and the Soviet Union. The MVD was dissolved and reformed several times during the Stalin era until being established as the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in 1946. The current MVD was formed in 1990 from the Russian branch of the MVD of the USSR shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Kolokoltsev has been the Minister of Internal Affairs since 21 May 2012.