Contents tagged with Russian Interior Ministry

  • Russia’s Supreme Court upholds police travel ban

    The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the ban which prohibits police officers from traveling abroad on private business, and dismissed the complaint of Maxim Luzhnykh, a former road patrol squad commander in Moscow’s Southern District, Radio Liberty reports.

    Luzhnykh was dismissed from law enforcement in 2016 after he went on holiday to Bulgaria and the Dominican Republic. In his complaint, he insisted that the ban on international travel violates the Russian Constitution, which guarantees …

  • Russia’s Interior Minister promises to expand cooperation with North Korea

    The Russian Minister of Internal Affairs,Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kolokoltsev, during his meeting with the President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, Kim Yong-nam, in Pyongyang, announced Russia's intention to expand cooperation with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), reported  the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs , Irina Volk, on Tuesday.

    “The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia stressed that Russia …