A special report 18.03.2001 (2001)

The title of the program is "Russians in the Police".

There are 4,000 police officers from 53 countries working in Kosovo, including such exotic countries as Ghana.

The police patrol the streets of populated areas, check cars, confiscate weapons, stop riots, investigate criminal offenses and much more.

For 17 months, 100 police officers from Russia have been working as part of the international police, all of them are experienced officers who speak English well.

The report shows the situation in Kosovo through the eyes of the police, through their work and everyday life.

Video: The Kosovo-Macedonian border, March 2001. A machine gun from an armored personnel carrier fires on a city street.

Caption: "Prologue".

Smoke from a fire on a mountainside.

Soldiers exchange fire with Albanian militants on a narrow city street in Macedonia.

Children leave the city in the back of a truck.

Soldiers in helmets on a city street.

Soldiers with weapons walk across a field.

Information board "Kosovo-Serbia border".

A man walks along a mountain slope.

A soldier looks through binoculars.

A soldier of the Presevo Liberation Army with a "UCPMB" chevron checks documents.

A soldier of the Presevo Liberation Army with a machine gun in his hands.

A soldier with a telescopic rifle looks at the mountain.

The barrel of the rifle.

Caption: Yugoslavia, Kosovo, November 28, 2000. People chant in the street and walk along the street with flags and banners.

Didenko Anatoly, a police lieutenant colonel, looks out the window and says that people are celebrating Albanian Flag Day.

Didenko Anatoly talks about the brutal murder of a Serb, a professor at the University of Kosovo, and his family by Albanians a year ago.

Helicopters in the sky above the city.

A man, a resident of a Serbian village, talks about the shelling of their houses by Albanians.

By the fire Kirisenko Andrey, a correspondent, talks about the shelling of a Serbian village by Albanians.

Children raise their hands while sitting by the fire.

A man from a Serbian village says that they have no weapons, only hearts.

On the road, military vehicles with the inscriptions KFOR - an international force led by NATO responsible for ensuring stability in Kosovo.

A car with the inscription "Police".

Logs are burning in a fire.

Children raise their hands while sitting by the fire.

Military personnel in camouflage uniforms with machine guns on a night street.

Vadim Shapashnikov - a police major in his office talks about solving an incident with a night shooting, a captured criminal, his involvement in Albanian militants.

Shows the confiscated weapons, camouflage uniform with the "UCK" emblem, photographs of a man with a machine gun, cartridges.

Vadim Shapashnikov communicates with local residents of a Serbian village near a house, shows a photograph.

A cart harnessed by oxen next to a woman with a pitchfork.

Vadim Shapashnikov walks along the road greeting schoolchildren and local residents.

An armored personnel carrier on a village street.

Shapashnikov Vadim - police major talks about the situation in his area.

Shapashnikov Vadim talks to a local resident of a Serbian village near his house and shows a photo.

Chevron: Russia, Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Kalashnikov assault rifles are by the wall.

Filatov Mikhail - police lieutenant colonel talks about a detained man with an assault rifle.

Filatov Mikhail walks along the railroad tracks with Albanian children who found a mine near the railroad embankment.

Filatov Mikhail pulls an object out of the bushes, it is a gas mask box.

Filatov Mikhail unscrews the lid of the gas mask box and gives the box to the Albanian children.

Albanian children wave their hands at the camera.

View from the car of Serbian houses destroyed by Albanians.

Filatov Mikhail is driving a car talking about Albanians and Serbs.

On the road, policemen talk to the owner of a missing cow.

In the room of the house, a woman with a child in her arms.

Karpovets Dmitry - police lieutenant colonel sitting at the table in the kitchen talking about a missing Serbian cow.

Karpovets Dmitry - police lieutenant colonel walking along the road with a local resident and saying that the locals believe that life here is hopeless and unsafe.

An elderly woman gets on a bus.

Military personnel at a bus stop.

Military personnel helping residents load luggage onto the bus.

Armored personnel carriers and a bus on the road.

Police officers inspect a car and passengers.

A military man with a machine gun on the street.

A police officer inspects the trunk of a car.

A female police officer writes down data in a notebook.

People at the car market.

A female police officer writes down the license plate of a car.

Police officers inspect a passenger.

Police officers inspect a car.

Potapov - police captain talking about stolen cars from European countries.

Joint inspection of cars by police officers from different countries.

Paramonov Valery - police lieutenant colonel introducing a police officer from the African country of Ghana and talking about their joint work.

A policeman from the African country of Ghana says that he is not cold.

Flashing light on the roof of the police car.

Vinogradov Konstantin - police lieutenant colonel conducts a joint raid with a policeman from the USA in a local nightclub.

Vinogradov Konstantin - police lieutenant colonel communicates with a stripper of the nightclub.

The girl says that she is from Rostov and works in the club under a contract, her work and communication with local residents.

Vinogradov Konstantin - police lieutenant colonel behind the wheel of a car talks about working with policemen from the USA. Jeffrey, a policeman from the USA, talks about the crime situation in Kosovo and the relations between Serbs and Albanians.

A chevron in the form of the US flag on the sleeve of the policeman.

Jeffrey, a policeman from the USA, conducts a search of a teenager near the car.

Policemen communicate on the street of the city.

A car with the inscription "Police" on the rear window.

Ed, a policeman from the USA, says that he has changed his mind about the Serbs and propaganda in the USA. Women, men and children on the street of the city.

Two men are walking near a multi-storey building.

Burashenkov Boris, a police major, says that he rents an apartment from a Serb family and points to the windows of the apartment that was shot at with a grenade launcher.

View from a moving car, sirens wailing, a cameraman running with a camera along the sidewalk, police cordoning off the crime scene.

The building of the hotel "Grand Hotel Prishtina".

Policemen with pistols and machine guns are hiding behind cars near the hotel, sirens wailing.

Doctors and soldiers near a stretcher with a wounded man.

A crying woman is walking next to a policeman.

Kirisenko Andrey talks about the monument to the war hero Pajaziti Zahir.

Statue of Pajaziti Zahir in Pristina.