By administrative means

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By administrative means (В административном порядке, "V administrativnom poryadke") was an expression in use in the Soviet Union applied to the cases when some actions that normally required a collegial decision were left to the decision of certain officials, i.e., by administration, rather than by deliberation or by criminal punishment.

There were several ways to do so. A deliberating body could decide to leave some cases to be settled "by administrative means". An official could decide for himself to shortcut the deliberations; formally, these actions could be overruled collegially. Finally, some cases could be taken out of the collegial responsibilities by a statute or law.

A notable instance of the latter case was application of certain punishments "by administrative means", i.e., without deliberations in court. See Special Council of the NKVD and 101st kilometre articles for some examples.

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• WP:OFFICE