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Organized Crime in Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Chaim Shinar
Chaim Shinar*
Affiliation:
Marzouk ve Azar St. 21c, Kiryat Ono, 5521809, Israel. E-mail: shinarch@012.net.il
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Abstract

The breakup of the Soviet Union in the 1990s opened the gates of immigration to Israel and to the West. The wave of immigration to Israel also included criminal elements who wanted to evade the rule of law in their countries. The arrival of these people to Israel aroused my interest in the historical causes of corruption in Russia, forms of corrupt behaviour by state employees, and the processes of development and creation of criminal organizations in Russia.

Type
Crime in Russia
Information
European Review , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 2016 , pp. 631 - 640
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2016 

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