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Groningen | Гронинген, 16-04-2022.

Mark Galeotti | The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2018, 326 pages.

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The first serious history of Russia's most feared crime class: the vory v zakone

In 1974, a body washed up on a Russian coastline. The face was disfigured and there were no fingerprints or clothes by which to identify it. Yet within two days the police knew who it was. The reason: the body was covered with tattoos, the signature mark of a vor, a member of Russia's fraternity of gangsters.

The vory were born early in the twentieth century, largely in the Gulags and criminal camps. Members abided by the thieves' code, a strict system that forbade all paid employment and cooperation with law enforcement and the state. Their tattoos signalled their commitment to the criminal life, and were also their CV.

In this hard-hatting yet nuanced account, Russian organised crime expert Mark Galeotti explores the history of the Russian underworld and the vory at its heart - a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War and the end of the Soviet experiment. Ranging from the vory's roots in tsarist Russia to the new criminal class that now flourishes under Putin, Galeotti shows how organised crime has penetrated the country's financial and political structures and presents a formidable challenge which cannot be ignored.

Mark Galeotti is senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations, Prague. An expert and prolific author on transnational crime and Russian security affairs, he has also advised the British Foreign Office and many government and law enforcement agencies in Europe and North America.

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