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Putin's kleptocracy : who owns Russia?
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant work provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
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The roots of Russian organized crime: from old-fashioned professionals to the organized criminal groups of today
This study focuses on the development of persons and organizations in the successor states of the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on Russia. It examines the development of criminal professionalism in Russia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and argues that exiling peasants to Siberia contributed to the development of a criminal underworld and the creation of a professional criminal underclass. In the early to late Soviet periods, vory v zakone, or “thieves-in-law,” evolved together with criminal groups as a means to survive in the GULAG, these criminal groups operating within the Soviet prisons and penal colonies. Inadequacies of the Soviet system of central planning led to the criminalization of the Soviet economy and the emergence of the thieves-in-law as critical players. Activities such as racketeering, robbery, and other crimes were dangerous but predominantly secondary. The roots of the Russian mafia lie in the innermost depths of the Russian shadow economy. Some of the key aspects of the post-Soviet privatization process are analyzed together with the interaction between various levels of the Russian government and organized crime groups. It is argued that the state was not corrupted by organized crime groups, but rather the organized crime groups became the state. In the new Russia, organized crime groups and corrupt government executives work together to generatea new criminal state.
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Putin's kleptocracy : who owns Russia ?
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant work provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
Private Protection in Russia and Poland
This essay examines the role, sources, and effects of private protection using an original survey of 240 small businesses in Russia and Poland. Results from the survey support three findings. First, most managers said that private protection organizations offered a service other than protection against rival protection organizations. Second, private protection thrives where shops are inspected frequently by many agencies, indicating that disorganized regulation increases informal activity and promotes private protection. In addition, businesses that renovate their shops are more likely to have contact with a private protection organization, indicating that PPOs prey on shops that reveal that their wealth. Thus, demand from businesses and the incentives facing PPOs determine the scope of PPO activity. Third, on balance, managers viewed PPOs as doing more harm than good for their business.
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Russia's Energy Empire Under Strain
\"Whether Russia finds success in the world market economy or slips back into the `developing world' depends most of all on how it makes use of its vast energy resources. The energy industry is the one sector of the old Soviet economy that hasn't collapsed-- but its ability to make badly needed investments is hampered by a government that caps prices, customers who don't pay, and industry insiders who siphon away profits and deter foreign investors.\" (TRANSITION)
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