Posts Tagged
stratification of criminality in Russia

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  2020/04/04 - 09:58 • International, Op-ed

  Putin created unit that blew up apartment blocks in 1999 a year...

  Drawing on his contacts that he had developed with the criminal world during his first years in the KGB, Vladimir Putin in 1998 when he was head of the Russian FSB created the mixed intelligence-criminal group that blew up the apartment...

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  2018/12/27 - 16:35 • International, More, Russian Aggression

  Putin regime – West’s ‘existential’ enemy and West must stop his aggression...

  The regime Vladimir Putin has created in Russia is an “existential” enemy of the West and an international system intended to limit the use of violence by one state against others, Aleksandr Skobov says. His aggression against Ukraine...

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  2018/11/25 - 13:21 • International, More

  To deal with Putin, West needs to study Russian criminal world, Eidman...

  Russian foreign policy, Igor Eidman says, “consists of a bizarre mix of the traditions of a corrupt bureaucracy and a criminal world.” Europeans and others in the West need to recognize this; otherwise, they will discover that how they...

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  2017/10/01 - 12:37 • Crimea, International, More

  Crimea suffering from ‘East German Syndrome,’ Moscow scholar says

  There have been almost as many premature deaths in Crimea as a result of rapidly rising mortality rates on the Ukrainian peninsula since the Russian Anschluss as there have been combat losses in the Donbas, 9400 compared to 10,000...

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  2017/08/13 - 08:32 • International, More

  Youth bands increasingly terrorizing Russian regions

  Despite the Putin regime’s massive police presence – Russia now has more police per capita than any other country in the world – youth gangs are killing, raping and attacking representatives of the authorities across the country,...

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  2015/12/17 - 06:33 • International, More

  Chekist regime and criminal world in Russia now ‘completely coincide,’ Portnikov says

  Those Russian officials who came out of the KGB have not struggled with the criminal world as they did with the Communist Party apparatus in the past, Vitaly Portnikov says. Instead, “they have preferred to become part of this criminal...

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