one of the federal and regional special units of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation (Rosgvardiya), which were (until 2003) part of the Regional Departments for Combating Organized Crime (RUBOP) The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (units of over 200 people have been called detachments since the late 1990s). In 2002, the SOBR detachments were transformed into special purpose militia detachments (OMSN).