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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.