By administrative means (В административном порядке, "V administrativnom poryadke") was a term used in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
when some actions which would normally require a court decision were left to the decision of executive bodies (administration) i.e., a form of
extrajudicial punishment
Extrajudicial punishment is a punishment for an alleged crime or offense which is carried out without legal process or supervision by a court or tribunal through a legal proceeding.
Politically motivated
Extrajudicial punishment is often a fea ...
.
In modern
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
there are concepts of
:ru:административное правонарушение, administrative process, and
:ru:административная ответственность - all governed by the
: is "an unlawful, guilty action (inaction) of an individual or legal entity for which this Code or the laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on administrative offenses establishes ",
and "by administrative means" refers to the application of the administrative process.
Concepts similar to "administrative process" exist in other countries:
:de:Verwaltungsverfahren in Germany,
:pl:Postępowanie administracyjne in Poland, etc.
See also
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Special Council of the NKVD
Special Council of the USSR NKVD (Особое совещание при НКВД СССР, ОСО) was created by the same decree of Sovnarkom of July 10, 1934 that introduced the NKVD itself. By the decree, the Special Council was endowed with th ...
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NKVD Troika
NKVD troika or Special troika (russian: особая тройка, osobaya troyka), in Soviet history, were the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD which would later be the beginning of the KGB) made up of three officials who issued ...
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Population transfer in the Soviet Union
From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy Beria, forcibly transferred populations of various groups. These actions may be classified ...
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101st kilometre The 101st kilometre (russian: 101-й километр, ''sto pervyy kilometr'') is a colloquial phrase for restrictions on freedom of movement in the Soviet Union.
Etymology
The phrase "101st kilometre" was first coined after the Soviet Union hoste ...
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Administrative arrest (Russia)
In Russia and some other post-Soviet states, administrative detention (russian: административное задержание) and administrative arrest (russian: Административный арест) are types of incarceration rel ...
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*, an organization with rights to carry out administrative activities
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References
Soviet phraseology
Euphemisms
Extrajudicial killings
Russian administrative law
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