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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 03/04
The Russian Federal Border Service: Lessons for Planning and Establishing Border Security Systems
Major General Vladimir Mochalov
March 2002
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
Abstract
Following the disintegration of the USSR, there was no decrease in the total length of the Russian border in comparison with that of the Soviet Union (more than 60,000 km2). The number of bordering countries rose from fifteen to sixteen. Furthermore, 13,500 km2 of new boundaries were created. This figure represented a fifth overall length of the border). Yet, the new boundaries were not formalised in legal terms, they were not appropriately equipped and, in fact, lacked border guard control.
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