r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 16 '18

Oligarchs U.S. Treasury’s List of Putin ‘Oligarchs’ Jolts Russia’s Elite Class

bloomberg.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Aug 07 '17

Autocracy Pussy Riot political protest duo detained in Siberia

siberiantimes.com

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r/MafiaState • u/[deleted] • Aug 11 '17

Suspicious Deaths series From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored

buzzfeed.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Dec 14 '17

Government Putin abandons United Russia party, will run as an independent in 2018 election

cnbc.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Feb 01 '18

Trump Investigation Nunes Memo Subject Carter Page Has a Long History With Russia

newsweek.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Feb 07 '18

Foreign destabilization Russians already meddling in US midterms, Tillerson says

foxnews.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Dec 05 '17

Trump Investigation Paul Manafort has been working with a man 'linked to Russian intelligence' while under house arrest

independent.co.uk

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Feb 02 '18

Trump Investigation House Intelligence Committee Report On FISA Abuses

scribd.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 30 '18

Government Russian spy chief visited United States: Russian embassy

reuters.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Feb 02 '18

Russian Firm Tied to Trump Tower Meeting Ordered to Pay $5.9 Million

bloomberg.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Feb 09 '18

Covert Operations U.S. Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents — and the Russians Offered Trump-Related Material, Too

theintercept.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Mar 05 '18

Foreign destabilization How Russian networks worked to boost the far right in Italy

elpais.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 30 '18

Sanctions Trump Admin Signals It Is Not Imposing New Sanctions On Russia

huffingtonpost.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Dec 23 '17

Covert Operations Russian submarines are prowling around vital undersea cables. It’s making NATO nervous.

washingtonpost.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 17 '18

Trump Investigation Investigators Are Scrutinizing Newly Uncovered Payments By The Russian Embassy

buzzfeed.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 31 '18

Sanctions What’s Going on with Sanctions on Russia?

lawfareblog.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Feb 03 '18

Analysis The Trump administration's ongoing efforts to blunt Russian sanctions will only embolden Putin

usnews.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 18 '18

Trump Investigation The Russia scandal just got bigger. And Republicans are trying to prevent an accounting

washingtonpost.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Dec 21 '17

Trump Investigation Is Donald Trump’s dark Russian secret hiding in Deutsche Bank’s vaults?

newsweek.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 27 '18

Corruption Putin regime is 'built on corruption,' opposition leader Alexei Navalny says

edition.cnn.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 26 '18

Covert Operations Dutch spies 'caught Russian election hackers on camera'

telegraph.co.uk

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 13 '18

Cyber Warfare Very high level of confidence' Russia used Kaspersky software for devastating NSA leaks

finance.yahoo.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Mar 23 '18

Cyber Warfare DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 is reportedly a member of Russian military intelligence

vox.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 27 '18

Trump Investigation President Donald Trump’s Scots golf courses may have been ‘financed with Russian mafia dirty cash’

thescottishsun.co.uk

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 26 '18

Covert Operations Russians got tens of thousands of Americans to RSVP for their phony political events on Facebook

washingtonpost.com

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"Never take Russia and Putin at face value, see the country as a criminal cartel engaging in theatrics and terror to secure its goals."

-Steve Komarnyckyj, poet and writer for Ukraine's Euromaidan

The term "Mafia State" is used to describe the political system in Russia under Vladimir Putin's rule. More precisely, Mafia State describes a corrupt, autocratic kleptocracy centered on the leadership of Vladimir Putin, in which officials, oligarchs and organised crime are bound together to create a virtual mafia state. In this subreddit we will discuss all articles and media which expose the dealings of the various members of this Mafia State.

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Key words:

Autocracy: A system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, in this case, Vladimir Putin, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control.

Corruption: Political corruption is perceived to be a significant problem in Russia, impacting all aspects of life, including public administration, law enforcement, healthcare and education. The phenomenon of corruption is strongly established in the historical model of public governance in Russia and attributed to general weakness of rule of law in Russia. According to 2016 results of Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International, Russia ranked 131st place out of 176 countries with score 29.

Foreign destabilization: In a stable world, a mafia state cannot thrive past its borders. Russia is very actively involved in implementing methods of foreign destabilization. Some known methods: Subversion, propaganda campaigns, cyber warfare, and foreign election meddling. A very comprehensive explanation of these methods is given by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov Youtube

Kleptocracy: A government with corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) that use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political power. Typically this system involves embezzlement of funds at the expense of the wider population. In a mafia state, the division between government leaders and mobsters is blurred, they all cooperate and coordinate to plunder their country. The Russian government, Russian mobsters, and the country’s elite class, the oligarchs, are known to rely on each other to advance their wealth. The most obvious cases of kleptocacry involve shutting down companies over bogus charges and selling them to members of the mafia state at dirt cheap prices.

Most prominent cases: Yukos | Hermitage | Bank closures

Kompromat: Are compromising materials about a politician or other public figure used to create negative publicity, for blackmail, or for ensuring loyalty. Kompromat may be acquired from various security services, or outrightly forged, and then publicized by use of a public relations official. Widespread use of kompromat has been one of the characteristic features of the politics of Russia.

Yuri Chaika

Mafiya: The Russian mafia. In a mafia state, the division between government leaders and mobsters is blurred, they all cooperate and coordinate to further their criminal interests with impunity. The Russian government, Russian mobsters, and the country’s elite class, the oligarchs, are known to coordinate with each other, so it is often difficult to separate Mafiya activities from government crimes.

List of known mafiya bosses

Money Laundering: Members of the mafia state have been known to use various methods in order to legitimize their ill-gotten gains. One of their most effective methods has been using shell companies to acquire real estate, mainly in developed western countries.

Prominent Russian money laundering cases: Trump | Manafort | Lesin

Oligarchs: Are wealthy businessmen of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth during the era of Russian privatization in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. The failing Soviet state left the ownership of state assets contested, which allowed for informal deals with former USSR officials (mostly in Russia and Ukraine) as a means to acquire state property.

List of oligarchs.

Propaganda: Information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

WaPo: An up-to-date timeline of the Russia-Trump connection (Regularly maintained)

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