Russian Federation MVD badge of the "Office against organised drug traficking" ?

[TacHel]

I found this badge on a Russian auction site... Remind you of anything? Eerie isn't it?

It is identified by the seller as a MVD badge of the "Office against organised drug traficking". I have yet to find ANY documentation on this item and strongly believe it to be (strongly hope it to be) an unadopted prototype.

Still... Yikes! Too close.

[Greg Collins]

Frank,

IMO this is nothing more than an attempt to sell a fake anti-partisan badge. I strongly doubt any Russian entity would copy any design having 3rd Reich roots.

[JapanX]

Frank,

IMO this is nothing more than an attempt to sell a fake anti-partisan badge. I strongly doubt any Russian entity would copy any design having 3rd Reich roots.

You're darn tooting, Sailor!

By the way, the name of this seller (blue transparent letters) is "impact" ...

Regards,

Nick

P.S. Frank do you know this site? If no, you might find it interesting

JIC

http://www.знаки-медали.рф/znaki-medali.html?page=shop.browse&category_id=2

Edited April 7, 2012 by JapanX

[TacHel]

P.S. Frank do you know this site? If no, you might find it interesting

JIC

http://www.з...;дали.

Have you seen their prices??? Good Lord all mighty! You'd think they were selling Imperial Orders at those prices! Almost every item has a zero too many left of the decimal... And the only items I need, they don't have.

Thanks, but if I dealed with those schmucks, I'd have to sell my car. They make Saslugi prices seem low, very low!

[JapanX]

Thanks, but if I dealed with those schmucks, I'd have to sell my car.

That's why many Muscovites don't have personal cars

[JapanX]

... this is nothing more than an attempt to sell a fake anti-partisan badge.

Actually there is a probability (pretty low ) that this was an honest mistake of the amateur seller.

The emblem of this department ("ФСКН - Федеральная служба РФ по контролю за оборотом наркотиков" http://www.fskn.gov.ru/eng.shtml) is indeed snake pierced by the sword...

http://www.знаки-медали.рф/znaki-medali.html?page=shop.browse&category_id=26

"New badge" definitely has too many snakes :)

Edited April 8, 2012 by JapanX

[JapanX]

I have yet to find ANY documentation on this item ...

Frank, here you can find the regulation for all official decorations of this department

http://www.fskn.gov.ru/pages/main/info/peopleware/5169/index.shtml

http://www.fskn.gov.ru/pages/main/info/peopleware/9509/index.shtml

Cheers,

Nick

Edited April 8, 2012 by JapanX

[TacHel]

Frank, here you can find the regulation for all official decorations of this department

http://www.fskn.gov....169/index.shtml

http://www.fskn.gov....509/index.shtml

Cheers,

Nick

Thanks, already had this, I have the ODM pages for just about every single Russian ministry/department/sub department/agency/corner office/cubicle...

If they're like other Russian governmental web sites though, they tend to be VERY slow at upgrades. EMERCOM is 4 years behind the ball right now, the Defence Ministry made a new site 3 years after the last changes had taken effect, then didn't give a link from the old to the new... The list goes on and on... Even the main federal ODM site... FAPSI took care of the old one from 1999 to 2003 when they were sucked back into the FSB, nobody upgraded it until the new site in 2010, and 7 months later they bothered to put a link to the new one from the old one... Its usually a pain because even if you do stumble onto an ODM page, you can rarely be 100% sure its the one being presently used.

[JapanX]

If they're like other Russian governmental web sites though, they tend to be VERY slow at upgrades.

Side effect of permanent struggle for "efficiency enhancement" and "modernization"? :lol:

[JapanX]

Do you know this source Frank?

http://armygoods.ru/index.php?cat=551

If no, then I hope you'll find it interesting (at least as source for pictures of more then 10000 different modern russian "medals" (God save us all!) and countless thousands of badges). Also tons of military related stuff.

Cheers,

Nick

[TacHel]

Thanks, most medals on that site are unofficial...

The official ones on there I already have, yes, all of them.

I only require a few more but they're proving to be quite hard to find, even Saslugi doesn't have them.

[JapanX]

Thanks, most medals on that site are unofficial...

That's why I called them

... "medals" ...

If it comes to that these (schmucks ? ) don't have "official" medals at all!!!

As we both know RF has only 21 "official" (state) medal

All others (no less than 23 000 medals ) are just shiny nicknacks...

The fact that these shiny nicknacks issued by state ministries doesn't change a thing, since the very same ministries will sell them to you with blank documents and sometimes (for the special price of course ) with filled ones ...

Edited April 23, 2012 by JapanX

[TacHel]

Ministerial and departmental awards I consider official, but ONLY the ones with a "ministerial order". It's the other crap I can't stand... Airborne vets, Afghanistan vets, Awards Comittee, Jubilee Comittee etc...

[JapanX]

"Field badge"

This one is original ;)

Edited June 14, 2012 by JapanX

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[Greg Collins]

Nice!

[TacHel]

I think I'm going to cry... :speechless:

[JapanX]

I think I'm going to cry...

I thought well trained fighter killers don`t cry

[JapanX]

Whatsamatter?!

Not enought snakes?!

Tell you the truth I feel exactly the same way

Edited June 15, 2012 by JapanX