Paul Goble
Staunton, June 18 – Russia has been facing an ever greater shortage of officers in its police force since the start of Putin’s war in Ukraine as militiamen have chosen to join the military where salaries and benefits are significantly better than in the country’s police (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/russia-scrambling-to-cope-with-mounting.html).
Now, in a sign of just how serious a problem this is, the interior ministry has declared that it wants to have the power to accept candidates who earlier would have been rejected, something an expert says will inevitably have an adverse impact on quality of policing in Russia (nemoskva.net/2025/06/19/prihodite-hot-kto-nibud-mvd-hochet-snizit-trebovaniya-dlya-priema-na-sluzhbu-na-fone-katastroficheskogo-deficzita-kadrov/).
Mikhail Pashkin, president of the interior ministry trade union section in Moscow says that “the lowering of standards will inevitably affect the quality of work and create the risk of systematic violations and mistakes.” He says that what should be done is to raise pay so that policemen will stay on the job rather than turn to the military.
But that is exactly the opposite of the direction in which the Putin regime has been moving and is unlikely to happen. Instead, the police will likely be forced to turn ever more often to para-police groups like the notorious Russian Community with the rights of Russians further trampled upon and hostility toward Russian law enforcement increased.
For evidence of the likelihood of those trends, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/buryats-in-rf-should-carry-passports-to.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-community-only-allows-people-of.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-community-now-country-wide.html.
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