Sysk

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sysk

in prerevolutionary Russia, special nonprocedural measures taken to establish the identity and whereabouts of unknown criminals and criminals in hiding. In contemporary procedural law, these measures are referred to as a search (rozysk).

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The government responded to the "problem" of the Don trade by trying to place the Don under blockade (1630-38) and by conducting a great sysk (dragnet and interrogations) of Don travelers in 1628-31.

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Peregudova, Politicheskii sysk Rossii, 1880-1917 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2000).

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Here I examine how mercy was meted out by judges and by litigants in criminal cases (those involving the most serious crimes and the sysk investigatory procedure).