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Okhrana
The Okhrannoye otdeleniye (, meaning Security Section or Security Department), usually called the Okhrana in Western sources, or diminutive Okhranka by those dissatisfied with the tsarist regime, was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in late 1800s, aided by Special Corps of Gendarmes.
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