A Glossary of Russian Police & Security Service Acronyms and Abbreviations

Organised Russian & Eurasian Crime Research Unit, Keele University, 1997.This list covers the period since the collapse of the USSR. It has been compiled from a wide range of open media sources, and cannot pretend to be either comprehensive or conclusive. In a few cases, contradictory or widely used but strictly speaking inaccurate definitions have been included.