After the collapse of the Soviet Union, for example, the Russian mafia and PMSCs stepped in to supplement substandard domestic law enforcement.

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A shadowy mafia style company, Sheriff, owns most of the economy.

Instead of the rule of law, there would be the law of the mafia, of terrorist groups, and of tribal militias.

It has its roots in the Sicilian Mafia, but is a separate organization in the United States.

Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15 of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.

These Albanians fear that, in the absence of the rule of law, Kosovo will become a mafia state.

Familiarity with the Russian blogosphere, Russian social networks, and Russian political, social, economic, and cultural trends.

The newspaper noted that Wolfowitz sounded like a character out of the mafia television show The Sopranos .

As with America s Mafia, police zeal has imprisoned many Yakuza leaders.

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Almeyda secretly met with Army General Oscar Villanueva, the presumed cashier of Montesinos's mafia.

According to her students and colleagues she had been receiving death threats from the mafia involved in grabbing precious land in the city

Russian capitalism hates the consumer as much as Russian communism did.

There are five main New York City Mafia families, known as the Five Families the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno and Colombo families.

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He participated in the Russo Japanese battles as a lieutenant and later in the Russian revolution of 1905.

Prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was known as the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.

Other women, such as his self proclaimed mistress Judith Campbell, reportedly had sexual relationships with Mafia figures as well.

Soon after, the use of the term mafia began appearing in the Italian state's early reports on the phenomenon.

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And in Bulgaria, the mafia was soon joined with 14,000 people who were sacked from their jobs in the security services between 1989 and 1991.

And why is it? Because mafias from all around the world cooperate with local paramilitaries in order to seize the supplies of the rich mineral resources of the region.

However, despite scientific advances, the future is decidedly dystopian for example, in one episode the mafia profits greatly from the sale of simple water.

They may be corporations, they may be mafiosi, they may be nice NGOs, they may anything, any number of things.

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