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Post-Soviet Russia is encountering some of the same problems the United
States had after its Civil War when young men, trained by the government to
be soldiers, returned from the battlefields only to find nothing to do at home.
In the United States, some of these men, especially those in the cities,
formed criminal gangs. These gangs eventually evolved into modern organized
crime.
In Russia, the transition to a market economy has caused widespread poverty
and corruption. That, coupled with a large number of veterans returning
from the Chechen war or other regional conflicts has resulted in an
alarming rise of violent murder-for-hire gangs.
�The criminologists who study the phenomenon of contract killings believe
that conditions have emerged in the Russian Federation conducive to the
establishment of large criminal organizations similar to Murder, Inc. of
the 1930s in the United States, an organization that was responsible for
about 1,000 contract killings in its 10-year existence,� wrote V.A.
Nomokonov and V.I. Shulga in Demokratizatsiya, a Russian academic journal.
An article in the Washington Post a while back highlighted a disturbing
trend among Russian business leaders � the creation of private security armies.
�In the last four years, said Vitaly Sidorov, executive director of the
Association of Russian Banks, 116 attempts have been made on the lives of
Russian bankers and their workers, or one every few weeks,� the Post
article said. �Seventy-nine of them were killed. He said the assassins and
their clients have not been apprehended �in 80 to 90 percent of the cases.��
At the heart of Russian organized crime is �krysha� (literally �roof�).
Krysha is known to the West as a protection racket. But in Russia, Krysha
is much more than just protection payoff. Krysha has evolved into an
underground justice system complete with trial and punishment.
The Washington Post quoted a Russian private detective who told of how a
big Western company in Moscow was approached by a prominent mafia group
demanding a levy.
�The firm turned to the police,� he recalled, and �a few high-ranking
police officials demanded $200,000 for law enforcement. The Westerners had
no choice but to do business with the police.�
In 1999, St. Petersburg authorities arrested Yuri Shutov, a member of the
national legislature and a prominent businessman, and charged him in
connection with the murders of a St. Petersburg lawyer and a bank
president. Shutov has long been connected with Russian organized crime.
A strident foe of Vladimir Putin, Shutov was handily re-elected in December
2002, despite spending much of his first term in jail.
That the Russians would re-elect a criminal to their Duma is not
surprising: In all, the interior ministry says, more than 1,000 of the
6,700 candidates for the 450 duma seats had criminal records � �a real
storming of the centres of power by the world of crime�, according to a
police official.
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