Misha Glenny made a name for himself as a BBC reporter during the collapse of the USSR and the Balkan wars. Then he became well aware of the dark, bloody and incredibly successful activities of the Eastern European mafias - led by the Russians. “Between 1991 and 1996. the Russian state has essentially withdrawn itself from policing society,” Glenny writes. – There were no hard and fast definitions of organized crime, money laundering or extortion, and by implication all commercial transactions were illegal and legal at the same time. This applied to drugs and women, as well as cars, cigarettes and oil. Oligarchs and organized crime were tightly linked.” For his book, Glenny collected material from all over the world. In it, he describes the activities of the Bombay gangs, sexual slavery and money laundering in Israel, the Canadian marijuana trade, Nigerian investment scams, Brazilian cybercrime and much more. The domestic reader, of course, will be especially interested in reading those passages that talk about the Russian “branch” of the global mafia. The main idea of the book is this: the united world market has incredibly strengthened criminals...