Very interesting feature of economy is Russia is large percentage of people employed in all kind of "security" jobs - army, security services, national guard and a dozen of others. Out of 75m "economically active" citizens over 4.4m is employed in government "security" plus another 2.4m in private security sector, 9% in total.
P.S. before you comment "what about America", please go and bring the data here so we have something to compare :)
Yes, it goes to great effort to make sure your money is secure in their pockets 😂
Irony apart, from personal experience Russian streets are probably just as secure as any other European town. There is much more cops who stop random people for "document checks" usually trying to get a bribe. Road police are absolutely masters of this. As I was driving in Russia back in 2000's there were police patrols like on every major road crossing and their *only* purpose was to extort bribes.
@kravietz I can tell you somewhere that has an even higher percentage! And the results are even less pretty. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-israel-privatized-its-occupation-of-palestine/
@kravietz it must be a really secure country