Russian banks warned of risk of cyberattack: a crime or security concern?
Russian banks are being warned by the FSB to prepare for possible cyberattacks. That may seem to be a given in these days of virtual criminality, and follows a recent theft of 2 billion rubles ($31.3...
View ArticleCrimintern: How the Kremlin uses Russia’s criminal networks in Europe
My latest report for the ECFR is out. While I am waiting for the bidding war for the film rights, I’ll settle for pointing people in its direction – you can download it free here – and offer up the...
View ArticleThe “Shulaya Enterprise” organised crime bust in New York
A big case opened yesterday in New York, with 33 people being charged with membership of a Eurasian organised crime group (the “Shulaya Enterprise”) and a wide range of charges, from murder-for-hire...
View ArticleFrom the ‘Brothers’ Circle’ to ‘Thieves-in-Law’: one myth succeeds another...
(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. Now...
View ArticleA Purely Personal ‘Best of 2017’ on Russia
Monstrously egotistical, I know, (though this is my blog, after all!), but here are the ten pieces I wrote in 2017 about which I am happiest, for various reasons: Russia has no grand plans, but...
View ArticleLaunch events in London for ‘The Vory’
So, although alas it will be be weeks before I get to see the final version myself, the advance copies of my new book, The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale University Press) are here, and the...
View ArticleVoA Ukraine service interview on Russian organised crime
Below are clips of an interview I recorded last week for Voice of America’s Ukraine service (in English, subtitled) on Russian organised crime’s international reach and activity, and its relationship...
View ArticleThe Russian Mafia: unmasking a global menace [video]
On 27 September, I was delighted to give a talk at the splendid Mob Museum (formally the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement) in Las Vegas, in their Wiseguy series. My talk was...
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