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2. The Russian Mafiosi are inter-ethnic and wide-spread.

Tue Jan 24, 2023, 07:18 AM

Jan 2023

The Chechen Mafia is probably the second most powerful (or dangerous) gang in the FSU. Govts change hands, but the mobsters remain.

Here's some info from wiki, Irish Dem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-Soviet_gangsters

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