Vory-v-Zakone
Post-Soviet Collapse and Criminal Continuities
Historical context: late-Soviet criminal culture, collapse of state capacity after 1991, and the rise of private protection markets and violent entrepreneurship.
Vory-v-zakone
Working definition of vory-v-zakone: historical professional criminal culture and hierarchy originating in the Soviet GULAG system; organisational templates that fed post-Soviet organised crime groups.