Russian Mafia
The Russian Mafia, Red Mob or Bratva are names designating a diverse group of organized crime syndicates originating in the former Soviet Union (Russia and the CIS). Since the 1991 fall of the USSR, these groups have amassed considerable worldwide power and influence.
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LinksRussian Mafia Grave Tombs
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These photos are from the cemetery in Yekaterinburg city. This Russian city was known in the 90s as “ the crime capital of Russia”, many Russian mafia leaders lived there, and many of them participated in gang wars, as a result many of them now rest in peace on this cemetery. They always liked tombs like those, the production of such tombs also costs thousands of dollars.
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Investigating the Russian Mafia
http://www.investigatingtherussianmafia.com
Website of Joseph D. Serio, author of the book Investigating the Russian Mafia. Investigating the Russian Mafia is a multidisciplinary approach to viewing the Russian mafia, including history, psychology, the economic system, and cultural underpinnings. With an easy-to-read text and stories of personal experiences, the book has been well received not only by scholars, practitioners, and the international business community, readers with a general interest in Russia have found it to be accessible and user friendly.
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THE RED MAFIA: A LEGACY OF COMMUNISM
http://andrsn.stanford.edu/Other/redmaf.html
The mafia is a major feature of Russia's experience in making the transition to a market economy. This article inquires into the nature and origin of this phenomenon. The evidence suggests that the Russian mafia phenomenon is a direct outgrowth of the informal economy and related corruption that was a significant part of the economy of the Soviet Union. Economists have usually concluded that the informal economy improved efficiency and consumer satisfaction in the Soviet economy. As aspects of this informal economy have developed into mafia activity, it has become less benign and is a possible threat to the success of the market economy in Russia because it threatens to defeat competition and thus the major benefit of a market economy.
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Russian Organised Crime
http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/arag/document-listings/russian/E97-rwd.pdf
The social and economic changes in the former Soviet Union over the last decade have brought to light the activities of Russian organised crime. Criminal groups or “Mafiya” as the Russians have named them, have proliferated across the former Soviet Union, and their operations have been extended far beyond their own national boundaries to much of Europe, into the Middle East across to the Far East and the United States.
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Russian mafiya become more active in Eastern Europe
http://www.janes.com/security/law_enforcement/news/jir/jir050524_1_n.shtml
The countries of Eastern Europe were among the first targets of Russian mafiya expansion after 1991. Such major networks as the Moscow-based Solntsevo grouping, Tambovskaya from St Petersburg and Chechen gangs were soon active across the region and in some cases seemed to be taking over local underworlds through violent turf wars and leveraging their greater financial resources.
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The Russian Mafia
http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/funda/Sidebar/RussianMafia.html
What Mafia pervades the daily lives of its country and has connections and control of the highest levels in its country's government? The Italian Mafia, the Colombian drug cartels, the Chinese Mafia? How about the Russian Mafia? The power and presence of the Russian Mafia is one that transcends the daily life of its country.
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Challenging the Russian Mafia Mystique
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/jr000247b.pdf
Drawing on information collected by TSP and several other research initiatives, the research reported here describes the historical context, the types of crime in which Russian criminals in the United States have been implicated, the extent to which these activities fit definitions and understandings of organized crime, and most importantly, whether what is seen is mafia-like.
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RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES AND THE MAFIA
http://users.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/issue4/kgbmafia.htm
I am not a specialist in the history of the secret services. My journalistic investigations are connected with economic crimes. Over time I have noticed that many of them are somehow connected with former or present officers of the secret services. Sometimes it seems that in the early 1990s former KGB officers were operating in Russia as if it were foreign territory.
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"Russian Organized Crime" Center for Strategic and International Studies Task Froce Report (1997)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hockey/mafia/csis.html
The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued this 1997 report on Russian organized crime as part of its Global Organized Crime Task Force headed by William H. Webster, former FBI chief. Excerpted here are sections dealing with the pervasive link between Russian organized crime and sports; how 'krysha,' (a term cited several times in FRONTLINE's report "Mafia Power Play") is a key component integrating criminal and legal economies in post-communist Russia; and how Russian organized crime has links with other organized crime groups worldwide.
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Books, DVDs, Magazine Articles etc.
.................Finckenauer, J. O., Waring, E. J. (1998) Russian Mafia in America: Immigration, Culture and Crime, Northeastern University Press, Boston
Friedman, R.I. (2002) Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America, Penguin Group
Govich, G. (2008) Career Criminal: My Life in the Russian Mob Until the Day I Died. IUniverse
Lallemand, A. (1996) L' organizatsiya, la mafia russe à l'assaut du monde. Calmann-Lévy.
Roth, J. (1997) Die Russen- Mafia. Das gefährlichste Verbrechersyndikat der Welt. Ullstein Tb
Serio, J. D. (2008) Investigating The Russian Mafia. Carolina Academic Press, Durham
Siegel D. (2005) Russische Bizniz. J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam
Varese, F. (2001) The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy, Oxford University Press
Handelman, S. (1997) Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya. Yale University Press
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