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This chapter looks at the global power of the Russian mafia, tracing its roots and its success in the post-Cold War system. Corruption became endemic in the 1980s, when organized criminal groups anticipated the end of the Soviet Union. The institutional weakness of the new state of Russia and the power of Russian oligarchs created the perfect storm for the mafia as well as extra-judicial practice. This chapter also discusses the Putin regime and its use of corruption as a lever of power.
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Kassab, H.S., Rosen, J.D. (2019). Russia and the International System. In: Corruption, Institutions, and Fragile States. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04312-4_8
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