Originally published 9/22/2009

Like Don Carleone at the end of the Godfather films, organized crime criminal groups in the Moscow increasingly are moving into legitimate businesses and government even while retaining ties with their criminal base. But because there is no single authority, the groups are increasingly fighting among themselves, according to Russian officials.

The Russian media over the last few days have been focusing on the state of organized crime in the wake of the assassination attempt against one of the most powerful criminal clan bosses, Vyacheslav Ivankov, knowsn as “the Japanese,” who now lies near death in a Moscow hospital.

But today’s “Komsomolskaya Pravda” provides not only the most detailed discussion of the current state of organized crime in the capital, including the impact of the government’s moves against the gaming business and of the economic slump but even a detailed map of which groups control what markets in what part of the city (End of non-subscriber extract.
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