Metadata: The Economics of the Russian Mafia (Mini Documentary)

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Sources

• Vory: Russia's Super Mafia - Mark Galeotti
• The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
• Wikipedia - Russian mafia 
• Wikipedia - Thief in law
• New York Times - Vory v Zakone has hallowed place in Russian criminal lore (Published 2008)
• BBC News - Wikileaks: Russia branded 'mafia state' in cables
• The Guardian - WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'
• Wikipedia - Privatization in Russia
• Facts and Details - RUSSIAN PRIVATIZATION AND OLIGARCHS
• Raid arrest footage
• VICE - How Putin's Russia Became Mafia Heaven
• GrayStillPlays - I Destroyed Society by Judging Murderers as Innocent - Blind Justice
• The New York Times - Russia on Verge of Hyperinflation, Premier Says
• The Moscow Times - Remembering Russia’s 1998 Financial Crisis (Op-ed)
• SpicyRussia - Putin's first public speech as Russia's Acting President (Dec. 31, 1999)

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