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Re:Investing in Russia? Better hire body guards and hunker d... by disposable on Monday June 07, 2010 @04:01AM (#1410106)
> The mob wasn't replaced by FSB, it was the FSB from the start

Back in late 80s and early 90s there was a mod and there was a FSB, with former comprised predominantly of criminals and former athletes. I am sure you are well aware of that if you lived in Russia at that time.

Re:Investing in Russia? Better hire body guards and hunker d... by rdtsc on Monday June 07, 2010 @02:02PM (#1411224)
Yes. But we are talking about the high level mobsters. Those that grabbed whole enterprises and were running multi-million dollar racket jobs, not local street gangs.

Some people think of local street gangs because they are just more visible, I am thinking of mobsters who were running the whole country. There were often connections between the two but both were operating at different scales and in different domains.