Foreign Affairs; Russian Roulette http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/03/opinion/foreign-affairs-russian-roulette.html?scp=325&sq=russian%20mafia&st=cse Everyone warned me to beware of street crime in Moscow. So my first morning in the hotel I go down to the front desk and ask for a safety deposit box to store my cash. "I'm sorry," says the desk clerk, "they're all being used. There's a waiting list; would you like me to put you down?" A waiting list for safety deposit boxes? It sounded like the punch line to a joke: "How do you know when you're in a really dangerous city?" Details | Report
