The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: A riot police outpost near Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station in Moscow.04.10.1993#6293681
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Foreground: Deputy Russian Interior Minister Lieutenant General Anatoly Kulikov, Commander of the Russian Interior Ministry's Troops and a supporter of Russian President Boris Yeltsin.04.10.1993#6293675
Police Lieutenant General Pyotr Bogdanov, Deputy Interior Minister, center, accepts new Audi 80 cars for traffic police patrol.19.12.1991#8139413
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. A soldier rests before boarding a plane.15.11.1991#6377067
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377062
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Loading military equipment on a military plane at an airfield in Vladikavkaz.15.11.1991#6377061
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377060
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377059
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377058
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377057
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Vladikavkaz residents discuss the political situation in North Caucasus with the Russian military.15.11.1991#6376141
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Vladikavkaz residents discuss the political situation in North Caucasus with the Russian military.15.11.1991#6376139
A news conference with a group of political prisoners pardoned by the presidents of the RSFSR and Kyrgyzstan held in the editorial office of the Sobesednik weekly. From right: Valery Yanin and Valery Smirnov answers media questions.01.10.1991#8600846
A news conference with a group of political prisoners pardoned by the presidents of the RSFSR and Kyrgyzstan held in the editorial office of the Sobesednik weekly. Pardoned Alexander Shcherbakov answered media questions.01.10.1991#8600845
A news conference with a group of political prisoners pardoned by the presidents of the RSFSR and Kyrgyzstan held in the editorial office of the Sobesednik weekly. Pardoned Alexander Goldovich answers media questions.01.10.1991#8600844
A news conference with a group of political prisoners pardoned by the presidents of the RSFSR and Kyrgyzstan held in the editorial office of the Sobesednik weekly. Pardoned Anatoly Khobta with his wife.01.10.1991#8600843
A news conference with a group of political prisoners pardoned by the presidents of the RSFSR and Kyrgyzstan held in the editorial office of the Sobesednik weekly. From right: Pardoned Anatoly Khobta and Valery Yanin answer media questions.01.10.1991#8600842
A news conference with a group of political prisoners pardoned by the presidents of the RSFSR and Kyrgyzstan held in the editorial office of the Sobesednik weekly.01.10.1991#8600841
The Moldavian SSR. Officers from a special police unit of the Moldavian Interior Ministry patrol Kishinev (Chisinau) streets.05.09.1991#6368247
The Moldavian SSR. Experts of a criminalistics laboratory of the Moldavian Interior Ministry at work.05.09.1991#6368243
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Shaumyanovsky District. Shaumyanovsk village.01.05.1991#3181787
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Shaumyanovsky District. Shaumyanovsk village. Armored vehicles in the center of the village.01.05.1991#3181785
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Shaumyanovsky District. Shaumyanovsk village. Coffins to bury those killed.01.05.1991#3181783
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Shaumyanovsky District. Shaumyanovsk village. Waiting for a helicopter from Armenia's Getashen village with those killed and injured.01.05.1991#3181781
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Shaumyanovsky District. Shaumyanovsk village. Unloading coffins to bury those killed.01.05.1991#3181780
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Shaumyanovsky District. Shaumyanovsk village. Waiting for a helicopter from Armenia's Getashen village with those killed and injured.01.05.1991#3181777
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Preparing helicopters to evacuate residents from Armenian villages in Azerbaijan.30.04.1991#3181778
The Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee (now Main Moscow Directorate of the Russian Ministry of the Interior).25.03.1991#6692193
The Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee (now Main Moscow Directorate of the Russian Ministry of the Interior).25.03.1991#6692192
The Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee (now Main Moscow Directorate of the Russian Ministry of the Interior). Senior expert of the document expertise laboratory M.Barinov.25.03.1991#6692191
Colonel Iosif Abduragimov, Head of the Combustion Department at the Higher Firefighting School of the USSR Interior Ministry (now Academy of State Firefighting Service of the Russian Emergency Services).25.03.1991#6692190
The Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee (now Main Moscow Directorate of the Russian Ministry of the Interior). Police officers at a crime scene.25.03.1991#6692189
USSR Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin answers journalists' questions after a roundtable, The USSR: How to Avoid a Disaster?21.10.1990#6692895
Protection of public order by police officers of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs at Sheremetyevo Airport (now Pushkin Sheremetyevo International Airport).01.10.1990#8334862
State Traffic Inspection Inspector, First Lieutenant V. Golovin, from the Soviet Interior Ministry on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square.02.07.1990#8321860
Inter-ethnic riots between the locals and and Meskhetian Turks in Parkent, Uzbek SSR, March 1990. Children of Meskhetian Turks on the streets of the village of Alikment, Tashkent Region, guarded by locals and units of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Interior.03.03.1990#6670610
Inter-ethnic riots between the locals and and Meskhetian Turks in Parkent, Uzbek SSR, March 1990. A rally of Meskhetian Turks' representatives near the building of the USSR Supreme Council Presidium's reception on Kalinin Prospekt (today Vozdvizhenka Street) in Moscow.03.03.1990#6670609
Inter-ethnic riots between the locals and and Meskhetian Turks in Parkent, Uzbek SSR, March 1990. Internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs at the entrance to the city.03.03.1990#6670605
Azerbaijani SSR. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Area. USSR Internal Affairs Directorate send in Internal Troops and the Soviet Army to settle the conflict. Soldiers and police officers escort a group of detainees.01.03.1990#8178811
A rally outside the Government House in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, in memory of the victims of the special operation by the USSR Interior Ministry Forces and the Soviet Army to disperse the opposition rally on April 9, 1989.21.01.1990#6725429
A rally outside the Government House in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, in memory of the victims of the special operation by the USSR Interior Ministry Forces and the Soviet Army to disperse the opposition rally on April 9, 1989.21.01.1990#6725422
The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Khanlarsky district. The Armenian village of Azad. Military post facing the location of Azerbaijani militants.01.01.1990#3089320
The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Helicopter of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs troops got damaged during the evaluation flight of militants' positions of the National Front of Azerbaijan in Khanlar district.01.01.1990#3089318
Police Captain and officer of the USSR Interior Ministry, on duty at the Tsentralny Movie Theater in Kaluga.16.11.1989#8340716
The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry's Troops became their first commando unit. Photo: Soldiers enter a building and seize terrorists during and exercise.03.11.1989#8140417
The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry's Troops became their first commando unit. Photo: Soldiers prioritize physical fitness.03.11.1989#8140415
The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry's Troops became their first commando unit. Photo: Soldiers enter a building and seize terrorists during and exercise.03.11.1989#8140414
The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry's Troops became their first commando unit. Photo: Soldiers clear an obstacle course.03.11.1989#8140408
The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry's Troops became their first commando unit. Photo: Soldiers enter a building.03.11.1989#8140407
The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry's Troops became their first commando unit. Photo: Soldiers enter a building.03.11.1989#8140406
A training session at the Special Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry Troops. In 1989, the Company was reorganized as a battalion and later evolved into the Vityaz (Knight) special weapons and tactics (SWAT) unit.03.11.1989#6565260
A training session at the Special Training Company of the Soviet Interior Ministry Troops. In 1989, the Company was reorganized as a battalion and later evolved into the Vityaz (Knight) special weapons and tactics (SWAT) unit.01.11.1989#6565259
Employees of the Main Directorate for the Protection of Public Order of the RSFSR Ministry of Interior opened a den of drug addicts in one of the Moscow apartments. Women who lived there are on the medical examination.02.08.1989#8178808
Employees of the Main Directorate for the Protection of Public Order of the RSFSR Ministry of Interior opened a den of drug addicts in one of the Moscow apartments. Documents are being checked.02.08.1989#8178778
New residents of the Smolensk Region are evacuees from Ferghana Valley in the Uzbek SSR who were resettled due to ethnic disturbances between locals and Meskhetian Turks.15.06.1989#5935349
Families evacuated from Ferghana Valley in the Uzbek SSR due to ethnic disturbances between locals and Meskhetian Turks.15.06.1989#5935348
Mass disturbances due to inter-ethnic conflict between locals and Meskhetian Turks in Ferghana Valley, Uzbek SSR. Checking documents.07.06.1989#5935133
Mass disturbances due to inter-ethnic conflict between locals and Meskhetian Turks in Ferghana Valley, Uzbek SSR. A victims of extremists.07.06.1989#5935132
Mass disturbances due to inter-ethnic conflict between locals and Meskhetian Turks in Ferghana Valley, Uzbek SSR. Extremists are arrested.07.06.1989#5935131
