Every fourth inhabitant of the Donetsk oblast has a criminal record

’This is not a secret that every fourth inhabitant of the Donetsk oblast has a criminal record’, Vladimir Malyshev, the head of the Donetsk oblast militia, said at a press conference. He pointed out that the Donbass is ’a very complicated region’ as to the criminal situation. He reminded that ’in the late 40th people with criminal past were sent there to build mines’. Many of them remained and ’thus contributed to the creation of the criminal situation’, said V. Malyshev. Yet, in spite of the great difficulties, the Donetsk militia ’controls the situation in the oblast’, assured the militia head. So, according to his words, the percent of uncovering murders is 92%, which is one of the largest in the country.