Criminal Communities in Russia

Abstract

Criminal groups are usually born in secrecy. Some of them, for instance, the Sicilian Mafia, have their roots in the depths of history. For some others, which appeared only in the twentieth century, somewhere in Chicago or in the forests of Colombia, the history of their formation may be a ready plot for a detective movie rather than an object of journalistic or scholarly investigation: too dark and temble are the first steps of these "alternative powers" to speak about them in a loud voice. Perhaps only in the archives of special services can one find stories from the past of criminal groups.