Okhrana

We can only hope Lind's "Okhrana" isn't reading the tea leaves correctly.

Hullabaloo 2006

Wallach, not surprisingly, went to his sister in Belfast, where the long arm of the Okhrana might have more difficulty in reaching him.

Gibbon III nwhyte 2009

The Okhrana however, met with frustration in England since prior to 1907, England and Russia were locked within the “Great Game” over Russian encroachment in Central Asia and into India.

Secret History of the Secret Service | Edwardian Promenade 2008

But to suppose that the Protocols were invented based on medieval fantasies is to give the Okhrana undeserved credit for both originality and historical research.

Letters to the Editor 2008

But to suppose that the Protocols were invented based on medieval fantasies is to give the Okhrana undeserved credit for both originality and historical research.

Letters to the Editor 2008

Russia's secret service, Okhrana, and its U.S. counterpart, the Pinkerton Agency, were every bit as devious and brutal as their revolutionary quarry.

Alex Butterworth's "The World That Never Was," a history of anarchism John Smolens 2010

In fact, the Okhrana long antedated Alexander III, and one of its particular duties at the time was to prevent pogroms.

The Tolstoys at Home Nikolai Tolstoy 2007

Czar Alexander III certainly impeded reform following his father's murder in 1881, but to write of his accession that it initiated "a wave of pogroms, oppressive edicts against the Jews ... and the establishment of a political police force, the Okhrana" is misleading.

The Tolstoys at Home Nikolai Tolstoy 2007

: The Okhrana, the Russian secret police in the reign of Czar Nicholas II, converted an earlier antisemitic novel into a document called the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”

Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals 2005

By contrast, the magician had official permission to appear in any city in Russia, an extraordinary set of circumstances that bespeaks the close relationship between Superintendent Melville and the Okhrana, the imperial Russian secret police.

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006