 By the mid-1980s, the image of the "people's militsiya" was largely compromised by the corruption and disorderly behaviour of both enlisted and officer staff (the most shocking case was the robbery and by a group of militsiya officers stationed in the Moscow Metro in 1980).Many high-ranking MVD officers, including the Minister himself, were revealed to be routinely bribed by illegal "shadow" businesses and criminals.The Russian MVD re-formed as the MVD of the Russian SFSR in 1990 following the restoration of the republican Council of Ministers and the Supreme Soviet.