Active April 29, 1992 Type Special police | Country Russia Garrison/HQ Moscow, Russia | |
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Branch Federal Penitentiary Service Role Law enforcement in detention facilities | ||
OSN Saturn (ОСН Сатурн УФСИН России по г. Москве; Otdel Spetsialnogo Naznacheniya Saturn) is the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) special purpose unit. Saturn was formed in April 1992 as a part of the Moscow Department of Punishment Execution (UIN) under the Ministry of the Interior. In 2006, the UIN system (including all regional departments and special purpose units) was renamed the Federal Penitentiary Service, and was moved from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Interior to the Russian Ministry of Justice. The Saturn unit is also often called "Jail Spetsnaz".
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The Saturn unit participated in the First Chechen War, including the storming of Grozny in December 1994-January 1995, and in the Second Chechen War.
In summer 2000, Saturn officers protected PACE delegates during their visit to the Chechen Republic.
Saturn participated in the hostage rescue operation in Kapotnya investigative isolation ward №9 on September 2006.
It provided protection and convoy support during both Mikhail Khodorkovsky cases.
Saturn provide illegals program agent protection in Moscow.