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Crime in Russia has hit its highest level in 12 years, the exiled news outlet Vyorstka reported, citing Prosecutor General’s Office data.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Russia registered 27,124 crimes in the first half of 2025 — 3,747 more than in the same period a year earlier and the highest figure since 2013.
The figures also mark the first time that the the tally exceeded 23,377 in a six-month span since 2014.
The agency did not disclose the types of crimes.
The figures come as more than 130,000 veterans of the war in Ukraine — including thousands of former prison inmates — return home.
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The government has long debated how to manage returning ex-combatants, particularly those recruited from prisons.
Last year, Nina Ostanina, head of the State Duma’s Family Protection Committee, urged the authorities to establish permanent oversight of former inmates returning from the front.
But Andrei Alshevsky, a lawmaker on the Duma’s Security Committee, rejected the idea, arguing that “heroes of the [special military operation]” had already “atoned for their guilt with blood” and deserved the state’s care.
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Tbh, what did they expect from thousands of people who ever were accustomed to violence (violent criminals from prisons) and the people who got a taste for violence serving on the front?
Lack of effective policing when your police is infamous for being corrupt and most of your auxiliary forces are on the front or near it will not help them either.
I am from Lithuania and we still have a lot of social problems that date back to the Soviet-Afghan war. Lots of men who served there either took their own lives or are currently drinking themselves to death, even 40 years later.