The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s much-feared crime the vory v zakone

Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, co…

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