NTV aired the Russian adaptation of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until 2010. The adaptation was titled Law & Order: Division of Field Investigation and followed a Moscow-based unit investigating sexually related crimes.
The project began after Russian production company Studio 2B purchased adaptation rights in 2007. It was not simply a Russian-language rebroadcast of the American series: the production used local characters, settings, performers, and storylines while retaining the basic special-victims-unit concept.
NTV is a Russian television network whose name is commonly rendered as NTV or НТВ. The adaptation’s broadcast run is easy to confuse with the American series’ NBC run, or with other major Russian networks such as Channel One and Russia-1. Those networks were not the one identified for this adaptation’s run through 2010.
The American original premiered in 1999 and centers on New York detectives investigating sex-based offenses. Its Russian counterpart transferred that premise to Moscow and was directed by Dmitry Brusnikin, with Alisa Bogart and Vica Fiorelia among its stars.