Recorded crimes in Russia

11.1. RECORDED CRIMES(thousand)

	1992	1995	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Crimes recorded- total	2761	2756	2952	2968	2526	2756	2894
of which:
homicide and attempts to kill	23.0	31.7	31.8	33.6	32.3	31.6	31.6
intentional heavy injury	53.9	61.7	49.8	55.7	58.5	57.1	57.4
rape and attempted to rape	13.7	12.5	7.9	8.2	8.1	8.1	8.8
robbery	30.4	37.7	39.4	44.8	47.1	48.7	55.4
burglary	165	141	132	149	167	198	251
theft	1651	1368	1310	1273	927	1151	1277
drug abuse	29.8	79.9	244	242	190	182	150
violations of traffic regulations and rules for driving road vehicles	90.1	50.0	52.7	54.5	56.8	53.6	26.5
out of them those resulting in lethal consequences	17.5	14.4	15.4	15.5	16.1	17.6	16.0

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