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Since the mid-1990s, the “Russian Mafia” has been viewed as taking a leading role amongst the most powerful criminal organizations in the world.48 It is not surprising that the strong position of Russian-speaking criminal groups has a profound influence on the situation in central Europe in general, and in Poland in particular.
48 For instance see Ernesto U. Savona, Sabrina Adamoli, Paola Zoffi (with the assistance of Michael DeFeo), Organised Crime Across the Borders. Preliminary Results Heuni Papers No. 6, Helsinki 1995, p. 8 ff. Also compare Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter, Organized Crime Second Edition, Prentice- Hall, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2000, p. 339 ff.
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Pływaczewski, E.W. (2003). The Russian and Polish Mafia in Central Europe. In: Siegel, D., van de Bunt, H., Zaitch, D. (eds) Global Organized Crime. Studies of Organized Crime, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0985-0_8
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