Mark Galeotti’s study of Russian organised crime, the product of three decades of academic research and consultancy work, is more than timely. In these days of ever more bizarre Russian attacks, it reads like the essential companion to a bewildering and aggressive new world, a world that is no longer confined behind Russian borders but seeks actively to penetrate and disrupt our own society.
Charlotte Hobson
A brutal band of thieves
Organised crime has been established in Russia for nearly a century. But the kickbacks for Putin’s cronies are on the scale of billions
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