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"The political, social, and economic changes occurring in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Republics have provided significant, unintended opportunities for organized crime groups and criminal enterprises in these countries to expand internationally. "
"The 'sistema,' which has ruled Sicily since my great-grandparents were children, has grown into a transnational empire of crime, and a trading power of phenomenal reach." A Mother Jones investigation by Frank Viviano."
A long report by Annelise Anderson.
"In the empire of crime, the U.S. mafia is just a supporting actor" A Mother Jones investigation by Frank Viviano.
Short report by Steven R. Van Hook(First published November 20, 1994).
"If you think New York is a tough place to grow up now, you just have no idea. "
"Boris Berezovsky, not Boris Yeltsin, may be the most powerful man in Russia."
"Though lawbreaking is nothing new to Russia, the words 'organized crime' were never breathed in Soviet times. These days they're shouted everywhere."
Speech given before the U.S.-Russia Business Council's Third Annual Forecast Conference,March 30, 1995
"Dirty cops in the former Soviet Union run both sides of the law" by William Norman Grigg