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This is a list of historical secret police organizations. In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or...

Secret police (or political police) are police, intelligence, or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, ideological...

IPA: [ɐˈxranə] , lit. 'The Guard') was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...

cyberattacks on Russia, South Ossetia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. One identified young Russian hacker said that he was paid by Russian state security services...

of the Russian Federation (MVD; Russian: Министерство внутренних дел [МВД], Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del) is the interior ministry of Russia. The MVD...

This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on...

There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. The first secret police after the October Revolution, created by Vladimir Lenin's...

of the Internal Affairs. Ministry of Police of Imperial Russia Okhrana Ronald Hingley, The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Political...

as VChK (Russian: ВЧК, IPA: [vɛ tɕe ˈka]), and commonly known as the Cheka (Russian: ЧК, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]), was the first Soviet secret police organization...

Pogroms in the Russian Empire (Russian: Еврейские погромы в Российской империи) were large-scale, targeted, and repeated anti-Jewish rioting that began...

Poles who even paid taxes for it, and a significant problem for the Russian secret police (Third Section). "It organized one of the world's earliest campaigns...

shifted loyalty to ISIS. Russian socialist revolutionary Yevno Azef, as a paid police informant, provided the Russian secret-police Okhrana with information...

The Russian Secret Police, 61. Hingley, The Russian Secret Police, 54. Hingley, The Russian Secret Police, 61-4. Hingley, The Russian Secret Police, 64-6...

pogroms were incited by authorities and supported by the Tsarist Russian secret police, the Okhrana, even if some happened spontaneously. According to...

politicheskoye upravleniye), abbreviated as GPU (Russian: ГПУ), was the secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from February 1922 to November...

for the Socialist Revolutionary Party and a police spy for the Okhrana, the Russian Empire's secret police. He rose through the ranks to become the leader...

left the seminary to become a revolutionary. After being marked by Russian secret police for his activities, he became a full-time revolutionary and was...

carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It officially started in early September 1918 and lasted until 1922...

Teddy's real name is Nicolai Itchenko, a Spetsnaz operative turned Russian secret police agent. Susan also reveals that Nicolai murdered two of the Boston...

Chekism (Russian: Чекизм) is a term that relates to the situation in the Soviet Union where the secret police strongly controlled all spheres of society...