Minsk City Police Department

The Minsk City Police Department (Belarusian: Галоўнае ўпраўленне ўнутраных спраў Мінскага Гарвыканкама; Russian: Главное управление внутренних дел Минского Горисполкома) officially known as the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee is the main municipal police force in the Belarusian capital of Minsk with responsibilities that include law enforcement and investigation in the city.

The department was founded as the Main Directorate of the Workers 'and Peasants' Militia of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Belarus on November 30, 1920.

[3] On October 2, 2020, the U.S. Treasury added Ivan Kubrakov, then head of the department, to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.

[15][16] The inspectorate has been known to have been involved in many scandals, including a situation in August 2017 in which a police officer broke the window of a vehicle and dragged the driver out onto the street.

In Soviet times, the band traveled all over the USSR and often performed in places that have experienced hardship, including Chernobyl in July 1986 and Leninakan in 1989.