Moscow allocates seven thousand police officers to protect Orthodox Christians on Epiphany night
On January 13, 2012, Dmitry Deinichenko, deputy head of the public order department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, told reporters that on the night of January 18-19, 7,000 policemen would be on duty near the baptismal fonts. According to him, an operational headquarters for preparing for the Christian holiday has already been created in the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Sources Order at Epiphany in Moscow will be guarded by 7,000 policemen // RIA News.