Crime

When Does the Crime-Terror Nexus Fail to Materialize? Drug Trafficking, Militants, and the State in Russia

April 17, 2020
Mariya Omelicheva

(Journal of Global Security Studies) Abstract: What are the conditions that obstruct the formation of a crime-terror nexus? To answer this question we carry out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of…

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Russian Organized Crime and Electoral Processes

July 17, 2018
PONARS Eurasia

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian organized crime has high levels of sophistication and well-developed networks of corruption. It influences a considerable portion of the economy and spills across national borders. In this regard,…

Dangerous Immigrants or Dodgy Perceptions? The Correlation between Immigration and Crime in Russia

May 23, 2014
Serghei Golunov

One of the key reasons for migrantophobia in Russia is the widely-accepted misperception of immigrants as criminals. According to this perception, certain groups of immigrants—particularly from the South Caucasus and…

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