Missions
- National Defence - conducts rear area security operations and all military operations within national borders, counter-intelligence authority in wartime.
- Security - Guard "key" state institutions (except for the Kremlin and the highest echelons of the government which are guarded by the Federal Protective Service (FSO)), nuclear facilities, special storage depots, and military bases.
- Counter-terrorist operations (VV Special Forces units such as Rus)
- Military police functions
- Public Order - Assist the Russian Police for riot control operations when OMON units are not available.
- Prisoner Transport - In Soviet times, also guarded and operated the Gulag. Today: convict convoyage and transport. Security and operation of prisons has been performed by the Federal Correctional Service since its creation in 1994.
- Possible counterweight to the military, especially during the Soviet era, when allegedly units of Division size existed till the fall.
- Border control - to assist the Russian Federal Border Service in the protection of the State border of the Russian Federation.
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