Factions and brokers in the Russian Mafia: investigating the structure of the Thieves-In-Law
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Paper in The British Journal of Criminology by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Niles Breuer, Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese and Elena Racheva

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Great review from Baris

”A lens through which to understand Russia’s transition – where legality is fluid, and entrepreneurship is as much about survival as it is about profit.”

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The ruthless oligarch who underestimated Vladimir Putin | Book review On March 23, 2013, the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was found dead at his multimillion-pound mansion at Titness Park, near Ascot. He was discovered by his bodyguard in a locked bathroom, with a l...

The TLS calls my book RussiaInFourCriminals "fascinating" and "lively"! @politybooks.bsky.social @thetls.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social :) www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...

Trump is simply accepting Putin’s views. So it is naive to say that Trump is incompetent because he accepts Putin’s key demands right at the start of the “negotiations”. The real matter is that Trump is *not* negotiating but acting as an ally/agent of Putin. This is the sad reality of our time/2

I read that Trump & Putin are “negotiating” the peace in Ukr. The word “negotiating” is profoundly incorrect. Negotiation assumes that the two parties have different , even very different, initial positions and they try to find a compromise. This is not the case in this instance/1

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Assad’s regime was mass producing the drug #Captagon. What will happen next? Yesterday I gave an interview to italian newspaper #Messaggero on this .

Crime, punishment, and Russia’s failed liberalization Nov 23, 2024 // Federico Varese’s latest book explores Russia’s political and social evolution through the lives and deaths of four criminals, writes Joshua Huminski.

What can criminal lives tell us about the society in which they thrive? In “Russia in Four Criminals (@politybooks.bsky.social) Federico Varese cleverly uses the titular criminals to explore Russia’s failed liberalisation. My @diplocourier.bsky.social review. www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/crime-...