. . . "Militsiya or militia (Russian: \u043C\u0438\u043B\u0438\u0301\u0446\u0438\u044F; IPA: [m\u02B2\u026A\u02C8l\u02B2its\u0268j\u0259], Belarusian: \u043C\u0456\u043B\u0456\u0446\u044B\u044F, Kyrgyz: \u043C\u0438\u043B\u0438\u0446\u0438\u044F, Lithuanian: milicija, Polish: milicja, Romanian: mili\u021Bia, Slovene: milica , Tajik: \u043C\u0438\u043B\u0438\u0442\u0441\u0438\u044F, Ukrainian: \u043C\u0456\u043B\u0456\u0446\u0456\u044F, Uzbek: militsiya or \u043C\u0438\u043B\u0438\u0446\u0438\u044F), often confused with militia, is used as an official name of the civilian police in several former communist states."@en .