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New Book Review, "The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia" by Mark Galeotti, in Global Crime

on July 10, 2020

VORY Ruská supermafia - Mark Galeotti

VORY Ruská supermafia - Mark Galeotti

The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2018, Xii, 344 pp., $28.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-300-18682-6

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