The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti

The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia Mark Galeotti ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300186826
Page: 344

Mark Galeotti has 33 books on Goodreads with 519 ratings. So be sure to tune in later today! Mark Galeotti's most popular book is Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009. It involves an understanding of what has happened in organized crime in the last decade or so. The Vory—as the Russian mafia is also known—was born early in the twentieth century, largely in the gulags and criminal camps, where they developed their unique culture. According to the MVD's latest figures, January saw total numbers of recorded crime rise by 4.6% on last year's (to almost 172000) but the proportion of serious crimes fall by almost 3%. Joining me will be co-host Mark Galeotti, a senior research fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, head of its Center for European Security, and author of the forthcoming book Vory: Russia's Super Mafia. Is the Russian Mafia really a threat to the American Mafia? Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Posts about russian organized crime written by Mark Galeotti. Posts about Russian Politics written by Mark Galeotti. (Of course I can't not start with a plug: my book The Vory, on Russian organised crime yesterday, today, and tomorrow, comes out from Yale University Press in April for the UK, May for the USA. The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone. Does the so-called Russian Mafia constitute genuine "organized crime"? This is more than an esoteric question.