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RUSSIA - FROM BANDITS TO BADGES

By Yelena Kuvshinova · 4 parts · 13 h 41 min · English

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Russia, 1988 to 2026. In the 1990s bandits sold protection, the roof, to a country whose courts could not enforce a contract; within two decades Russian courts were convicting a police colonel, an FSB officer and Investigative Committee generals of taking bribes. The book follows the money through that transfer: a Kuban district run by one family until twelve people died in a single night; the Moldovan court orders and Baltic banks that carried twenty billion dollars out; a darknet market that sold drugs by dead drop for seven years; and the exchanges and battlefield pardons that sent convicted men home. Covers Sergei Tsapok and the Tsapok gang, Vladimir Barsukov and the Tambov group, Alexander Grigoriev and Russian Land Bank, Kirill Cherkalin and the FSB, and Stanislav Moiseev and Hydra.

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  1. Part 01

    2:55:06

  2. Part 02

    3:09:33

  3. Part 03

    3:27:16

  4. Part 04

    4:08:40

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