A view of Kresty (Crosses) pre-trial detention center, St. Petersburg
Photo: Yury Tutov
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Russia’s Interior Ministry Registered 3,855,000 Crimes Past Year
Russia’s Interior Ministry registered 3,855,000 crimes past year. The growth was 85 percent, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev said during the meeting of his ministry.
But this growth in crimes doesn’t mean the society has become more criminal, Nurgaliev said. “To the contrary, the increase in the overall number of registered crimes of the latent criminal sector was forecasted for 2006.”
According to Nurgaliev, the latent sector includes petty offences and mid-size crimes, which account for more than 70 percent of the aggregate number of misdeeds. Given their extent, previously such crimes had been often latent from enforcement bodies.
At the same time, the number of heavy and extremely heavy crimes went down in Russia past year, Nurgaliev said. Registered killing narrowed 11 percent (to 27,500 murders), while the number of terror actions was half as much and abductions shed 12 percent, Nurgaliev pointed out.
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