The Russian Mafia has always exercised an important role in the Russian economy. The contemporary Mafiosi are descendents of the seventeenth Century highwaymen and Cossack robbers. These men occasionally murdered families prior to raids preventing them from being captured. The Russia Mafiosi made a point to remain aloof from the state. Mob men were actually spurned when returning home from fighting in the Great Patriotic War. The gangs begin to dominate markets such as car sales, spare parts, cigarettes, food distribution, and other markets that the Communist Party failed to provide under the Bolsheviks (Remnick196).
Since the collapse of Communism and the dawn of Capitalism, the Russian people have been troubled with innumerable obstacles. There are more than 3,000 gangs known generally as the Russian Mafia. They have proven to be a significant force in delaying the reform process (Goldman 58). The new Russian Mafia has involved .
themselves in every imaginable kind of criminal activity from drug trafficking and money laundering to protectionism, which penetrates into every area of society. Under the laws of the Soviet Union, the regulations were strong and external. Now the external regulators have disappeared allowing the Russian Mafia to exceedingly enlarge its strength and influence especially with the accelerated speed of privatization without legal safeguards.
The Russian Mafia's effect on the Russian economy through protectionism can be viewed through the different scopes of academia, the United States Press, and the Russian Press. Protectionism is a preferred activity of the Russian Mafia. When a new private business opens, the mafia ensures that it will get a share of the profits. The mob offers the new operation protection. If the business refuses to purchase protection, the mafia uses violence against them or their property (Gustatson 105). Most entrepreneurs purchase the protection.
The mafia controls Russia, and it is Russia's only real organization that works. ... In my opinion, the Russian mafia will be unable to stop. ... Challenging the Russian Mafia Mystique. ... Russian Mafia Shakes Down the Country. ... Pg. 3 Russian Mafia: Organized Crime Is Big Business for the KGB. ...
In Fact, the "Russian Mafia" consists of people attending many ethnic groups, but hardly any Russians. ... This "business" turned out to become the "Russian Mafia". ... But due to the population's lack of background knowledge about the "Russian Mafia", all members simply were "Russians" to them. ... They even wrote Senator Roth a letter suggesting to change the term "Russian Mafia" with the term "Red Mafia", which would not discriminate or offend any specific ethnic group and would also show the true origin of the "Russian Mafia". ... But there have been some aspects we have heard the ...
The history channel has valuable evidence at the beginning of the mafia mainly in Brooklyn, New York. ... Matthews ranks the top five mafias or organized crime groups based on their income. The Russian mafia well known as Solntsevskaya Bratva has an estimated annual revenue at 8.5 billion dollars. ... Why the United States isn't using hackers to steal information from Russia and China is unexplained. We as a country shouldn't sit back and let Russia who is recognized an ally to this nation hack into our military secrets and steal from us. ...
On August 17, 1998, Russia effectively defaulted. ... Nobody predicted that the best way to bring about the down fall of the capitalist system might be for Russia to embrace it- Since the conversion from communism to that of capitalism, Russia has been pillaged by the mafia bourgeoisie and the robber barons of international monopoly capitalism. Russian public finances lie in ruins. ... Instead of pumping capital into industry, the banks mostly siphoned it out into foreign bank accounts of the mafia capitalists (Socialism Today, 1998). These Russian mafia also known as the oligarchs'...
Kennedy dead can be classified into the following groups: Russians, Cubans, Mobsters (Organized Crime/Mafia), Special Agents (CIA), G-men (J. ... Since Russia did not own any land or power in the US/Cuban region, Castro offered the Russians a chance to extend their sphere of influence. ... Once again, he turned to Russia for aid. ... For years now, the US was sending nuclear missiles to friendly countries around Russia in order to halt any Russian expansionism, and the Russians were more than eager to return the favor. ... The Russian ships eventually returned home, with nuclear war being narr...
Only the government had the power to allow Oswald out of the country to become a Russian citizen. ... There have been some who say that the Mafia was the main party to blame. ... Of course, there was help by the Mafia to carry out some of these inside jobs. ... But the main person behind the control of the Mafia is J.Edgar Hoover. He was the director of the FBI and had many tie-ins with the Mafia. ...
Like America during prohibition, the Mafia took control and has plagued Russia ever since. ... The mafia to this day is still a major problem in Russia and it is because of Gorbachev's reforms. ... Organized crime in Russia is distinguished by its pervasive involvement in the legitimate economy. The participation of organized crime in Russia's privatization programs facilitated by the absence of legal safeguards and the failure of legal norms to emerge has resulted in the stealing of the Russian state. According to research by the Russian Ministry of the Interior, over 40,000 privat...
Many people believed that such intricacies of an assassination must have been works of the Mafia, which were an extremely powerful and influential group in the USA at that time. The Mafia is often known to dress their killers in police or governmental uniform. ... The reason for the mafia's dislike of Kennedy was that they spent lots of money to help promote Kenned...
Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Russia who was humiliated by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, instigated the assassination. ... Castro's motivation came from the CIA sponsoring Mafia attempts against his life. However, Mafia was also interested in killing JFK. Commission theorized that New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello might have completed the assassination. ... However, Mafia would not have used inexperienced Oswald as an assassin and would not have done the job all by itself; one possibility is that it blackmailed the government, demanding a cover-up in exchange for keeping secr...
