By administrative means

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 court decision were left to the decision of executive bodies (administration).

With respect to the imprisonment and deportation of individuals this meant extrajudicial punishment.

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