MOSCOW. Feb 11 (Interfax) - The name change of the Russian militia to police cost the federal budget 1.125 billion rubles, deputy head of the Duma Security and Corruption Resistance Committee Alexander Khinshtein (United Russia) said.
"The money spent on the changes of IDs, badges, signs, stamps, forms and chevrons, the repainting of vehicles, etc. totaled 1.125 billion rubles," he said at a Monday committee session.
He also said that 770 million rubles were assigned to amending statutory documents related to the enforcement of the law on the police.
"Thus, almost 2 billion rubles were spent on measures that had no direct relation to the reform," Khinshtein said.