Image: Armenian mafia graffiti in Hollywood. Although the Russian mafia is the biggest overseas crime network from the former Soviet Union, gangs from other countries have an overseas presence as well. Author: UltraNow. Flickr
Russian officials began talking about diversifying the economy years before the price of oil began tanking in 2014.
But there’s one commodity that Moscow has done a great job of exporting to the rest of the world since the early 1990s.
The trouble is, the rest of the world doesn’t want it — because it’s the Russian mafia.
I began reading stories about organized-crime syndicates from the former Soviet Union …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
