Militsiya
（重定向自Militsia）
Militsiya (Russian:мили́ция;IPA: [mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə], Belarusian:міліцыя, Armenian:միլիցիա [militsʰja], Kyrgyz:милиция, Lithuanian:milicija, Polish:milicja, Romanian:miliția, Slovene:milica , Tajik:милитсия, Ukrainian:міліція, Uzbek:militsiya or милиция), often confused with militia, is used as an official name of the civilian police in several former communist states. The term was used in the Soviet Union and several Warsaw Pact countries, as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia, and it is still commonly used in some of the individual former Soviet republics and eastern Europe.