Paul Goble
Staunton, Oct. 20 – Because of low pay and the departure of many Russian policemen to fight in Ukraine where salaries are far higher, the Russian Federation faces a serious shortage of police in many parts of the country and in some cases is looking to fill these vacancies with police from former Soviet republics.
Moscow last year brought police from Kyrgyzstan to work in Russian cities (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/12/to-cope-with-enormous-shortage-of.html); and now on Putin’s order (publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202510150046), it is doing the same from Tajikistan (nazaccent.ru/content/44674-v-moskve-poyavitsya-policiya-tadzhikistana/).
In both cases, Russian officials have stressed that these officers will be working in special institutions to counter drug trafficking and relations with immigrants, but at least some of the Kyrgyz already and presumably some of the Tajiks in the near future will be working on the streets.
That will likely offend many Russians and make it even more likely that they will give their support to units organized by the notorious Russian Community to work alongside or in place of policemen. If that happens, non-Russians, both migrants and indigenous, are likely to respond, sparking new conflicts (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/07/russian-community-complains-chelyabinsk.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-community-now-country-wide.html).
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