President Dmitry Medvedev decided to rename the Russian police into the police: “It’s time to return the police to its former name.”

President Dmitry Medvedev decided to rename the Russian police into the police: “It’s time to return the police to its former name.”

Bloggers immediately began searching for the meaning of the words police and militia. The nostalgic epitaph is this: it turns out that “police” means... “nice faces”, and “police” means “in the face”! “Garbage” is the American my cop (my policeman), read in Russian letters. And one of the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs deciphered the word “cop” as “my only reliable comrade.”

In fact, the word militia comes from the Latin militia - “military service”, “soldier” (militarism of the same root). With the meaning of “voluntary army”, “militia”, the word militia has been known in Russian since the time of Peter the Great. In its modern meaning, the police have existed since 1917 - it was “born” by the February revolution under Kerensky in order to replace the tsarist police and gendarmerie with the “people’s militia” (later it became the “workers’ and peasants’”).

The word police was heard in Ancient Rome, and since the 16th century it has been in the lexicon of European states. Its highest meaning: good morality, protected by law.

So, perhaps soon we will change the two letters “MI” to two letters “PO”, OMON to OPON, “comrade policeman” to “Mr. Policeman”. By the way, “speed bumps” won’t have to be renamed, but the series “Cops” will sound old-fashioned.

* In the film “Kin-dza-dza” the word etsilop means (polizei - read backwards) police.

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