Migration service. These non-police services should be distinguished from the militsiya itself, except passport and registration service, which structures are often included into OVD and sometimes considered one of the important militsiya services. Their members have always used different generic names and specific ranks (e.g. Major of the Internal Service, rather than Major of Militsiya). Soviet militsiya (GAI) cars The most common types were: Post-Soviet Militsiya forces Russia The Russian MVD was recreated as the MVD of the Russian SFSR in 1990, following the restoration of the republican Council of Ministers and Supreme Soviet, and remained when Russia gained independence from the Soviet Union. It controlled the Militsiya, the State Road Inspection Service (GAI), and the Internal Troops. Since the disbanding of the Tax Police, it also investigates economic crimes. In August 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev introduced new legislation to reform and centralize the funding of the militsiya, as well as to officially change the militsiya's name to "Police" (the term which was used in the Russian Empire). The change was performed on March 1, 2011. Ukraine Militsiya was the national police service of Ukraine from the 1950s until 2015. The militsiya was formed whilst Ukraine was governed by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union, and continued to serve as a national police service in independent Ukraine until it was replaced by the National Police of Ukraine on 7 November 2015. Other jurisdictions The term militsiya remains in use in several parts of the former Soviet Union: The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus operates a militsyya (), as well as other law-enforcement agencies such as the Presidential Security Service and the State Security Committee (KGB). Tajikistan retains the name militsiya, sometime translated as "police". The Transdnistrian police force bears the official name PMR militsiya. Cognate terms also came into use in several Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War. Examples included Bulgaria (Peoples' Militia), Poland (Milicja Obywatelska) and other Warsaw Pact nations, as well as the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia (Milicija), which was phased out throughout the 1990s and replaced by policija (police) in early 1997. Bulgaria changed the name of its law-enforcement body to Policija () in 1991. Romania operated a Miliția, but after the communist regime there fell (1989), the Poliția replaced it in 1990. See also ODON of the Internal Troops OMON Voluntary People's Druzhina Notes References Further reading Shelley, Louise I. Policing