page_title: Militsiya
hierarchical_section_title: Militsiya
caption_attribution_description: English: Militia and Police badges of the Soviet Union and Russia.
context_page_description: Militsiya was the name of the police forces in the Soviet Union and in several Eastern Bloc countries, as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia of 1945–1992; the term continues in common and sometimes official usage in some of the individual former Soviet republics such as Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as in the unrecognised republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria.
context_section_description: Militsiya (Russian: милиция, IPA: [mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə], Belarusian: міліцыя, Bulgarian: милиция, Estonian: miilits, Armenian: միլիցիա [militsʰia], Kyrgyz: милиция, Latvian: milicija, Lithuanian: milicija, Polish: milicja, Romanian: miliția, Serbo-Croatian: milicija/милиција, Slovene: milica, Albanian: milicia, Tajik: милитсия, Ukrainian: міліція, Uzbek: militsiya or милиция [often confused with militia]) was the name of the police forces in the Soviet Union (until 1991) and in several Eastern Bloc countries (1945–1991), as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia of 1945–1992; the term continues in common and sometimes official usage in some of the individual former Soviet republics such as Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as in the unrecognised republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria.
caption: Soviet and Russian badges, from top left to right bottom: Soviet Druzhinnik badge, Soviet Metropolitan Post Militia (PPS), Soviet State Automobile Inspection (GAI), State Automobile Inspection (GAI) of the Russian Federation, Russian Moscow Municipal Militia Central District, and Russian Police.
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