MVD abbr.
<俄> Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (苏联)内务部(= Ministry of Internal Affairs)
- The takeover in Moscow, he says, appears to have been largely carried out by the MVD with the assistance of elite Soviet army airborne units, whose bases ring the Soviet capital.
- Sagdeyev said it appeared final approval for using the MVD troops against the demonstrators came from local officials in Georgia.