High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Militsiya or militia (Russian: мили?ция; IPA: , Belarusian: міліцыя, Kyrgyz: милиция, Ukrainian: міліція, Uzbek: militsiya (милиция), Tajik: милитсия, Lithuanian: milicija, Slovene: milica (often confused with militia)) is used as an official name of the civilian police in several former communist states, despite its original military connotation (see militia). The term was used in the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc and the Warsaw Pact countries, as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia, although it is still commonly used in some of the individual former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe. Following the 2011 Militsiya reforms in Russia, the militsiya was renamed the Politsiya (police). Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по...