An armed plainclothes militiaman in Kiev, Ukraine, pins down a criminal suspect in the street.
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An armed plainclothes militiaman in Kiev, Ukraine, pins down a criminal suspect in the street. Crime is on the rise in all former Soviet republics, and at a Kremlin meeting Russian President Boris Yeltsin said that organised crime was his country's most serious problem
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