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In Russia extremist crime rate has sharply increased

23 January 2008

Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has published the statistics on number of the crimes committed in 2007. The data have been made public by the first Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Chekalin within the framework of the scientific conference on problems of national safety.

Tchekalin, in particular, has informed about 3 million 572 thousand crimes of various character (according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs). In 2006, according to the official statistics, 3,8 million crimes were fixed,

Every seventh crime in Russia in 2007, has told the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, has been committed because of drunkenness.

According to the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the greatest danger in Russian conditions originates from the organized crime. He has informed about functioning of about one thousand ethnic criminal groups in Russia. In 2007, told he, they have revealed 37,5 thousand crimes committed by the organized crime and detained 10,8 thousand leaders and active participants of the organized criminal groups.



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