The fight for purity

According to police estimates, about 7% of “ideological” homeless people should be isolated from society, which in Russia as a whole will amount to about 300 thousand people.

As the head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate for railway transport, Major General Andrei Alekseev, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta, “the state is obliged to protect normal citizens from the dubious “pleasure” of communicating with vagabonds.” “But a policeman, in fact, can only temporarily detain a homeless person and then release him,” the general complains, offering his solution to the problem. “Apparently, it is necessary to return to the Criminal Code the article providing for punishment for vagrancy.” The Ministry of Internal Affairs is confident that we are not talking about seizing and imprisoning all the tramps in a row; This is impossible: there are not enough bunks for “normal” bandits. According to estimates by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are four and a half million homeless people in Russia, with about one hundred thousand in Moscow alone. Representatives of the department claim that only 7% wander for “ideological reasons”; such people do not need any help or social rehabilitation - they will still go to “free bread”, and such people must be isolated from society.