RUSSIAN ORGANISED CRIMINALS SWAP GOLD CHAINS FOR WHITE COLLARS
January 1st, 2009
BY DAVID ANDERSON
ORGANISED crime is much more low-key in Russia today than in the wild-east days of the1990s. But that does not mean it has gone away. And, as David Anderson reports, the fluctuations in the price of oil are likely to provide plenty of opportunities for further illicit gains.
Russia's perpetrators of organised and organised crime are much less conspicuous nowadays, whether in Moscow, eastern or western Europe, than in the years following the fall of communism. This can, a little misleadingly, lead to the conclusion that commercial crime has ...
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