Medvedev continues shake up of Russia's law enforcement system
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President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed a deputy Russian justice minister and appointed a new interior minister in the volatile North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia as part of his efforts to improve law enforcement in Russia, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
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Police reform: the British way
28/12/200916:41MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - There is not a police force in the world that has not felt the impact of regular reforms. Unfortunately, such efforts equally regularly either peter out or end in a very abbreviated result, with the exception of perhaps two countries - Nigeria and Ghana - whose police contingents are believed to be the most corrupt in the world and no longer amenable to any tricks of the human mind. The Nigerians and the Ghanaians are still arguing which of them is the worse, and neither can win the argument.
