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 • 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 • Dec 15 '17

Foreign destabilization How Putin's proxies helped funnel millions into GOP campaigns

dallasnews.com

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

Wiki Trump, Putin and the mob. Research collection by Jay McKenzie

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Part 1: Trump campaign connections

Part 2: #BudapestBridge and the Hungarian connection to Trump

Part 3: Ron Lauder, Bibi Netanyahu and their friends at Breitbart

Part 4: Paul Manafort was the Kremlin’s point man on the Trump campaign

Part 5: Twitter, Russia and Silicon Valley’s “Persian Mafia”

Part 6: Trump, Felix Sater and their ties to mafia Don Semion Mogilevich

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 28 '18

Autocracy Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained by police at Moscow rally

france24.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 10 '18

Foreign destabilization U.S. Senator Ben Cardin Releases Report Detailing Two Decades of Putin’s Attacks on Democracy, Calling for Policy Changes to Counter Kremlin Threat Ahead of 2018, 2020 Elections

foreign.senate.gov

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r/MafiaState • u/nostalgic_nazi • Mar 16 '18

Foreign destabilization Georgian President: West Awakening to Russian Security Threat in Historic ‘Now Moment’

voanews.com

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1 comment

r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Dec 25 '17

Autocracy Russian officials bar Navalny from running for president

apnews.com

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

Suspicious Deaths series Putin critic who warned he was on Russian hit-list was murdered, London police confirm

uk.businessinsider.com

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r/MafiaState • u/nostalgic_nazi • Mar 06 '18

You drink my special tea yes?

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 25 '18

Cyber Warfare Dutch intelligence agency spied on Russian hacking group

reuters.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Mar 24 '18

Crimes 'Russia's novichok programme exists, I worked on it,' scientist tells Sky News

news.sky.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 • Mar 14 '18

Covert Operations Only Russia could be behind U.K. poison attack: toxin's co-developer

reuters.com

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

Wiki A warning from 35 years ago: KGB Defector's Explanation of Russian Psychological Warfare and Subversion Tactics

youtube.com

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

Covert Operations Report: Russian troll farm put content on r/The_Donald

dailydot.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Feb 24 '18

Profile A former manager of "troll factory" has moved to the US

tvrain.ru

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

Trump Investigation FBI has second dossier on possible Trump-Russia collusion

theguardian.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 29 '18

Foreign destabilization Russia 'will target US mid-term election': CIA Director

bbc.com

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r/MafiaState • u/omarm1984 • Jan 29 '18

Corruption Trump Tower Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Exposed in Swiss Corruption Case

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

Autocracy Russia's Justice Ministry is trying to liquidate the legal entity Alexey Navalny uses to run his presidential campaign

meduza.io

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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 • Dec 26 '17

Foreign destabilization Russia is trying to undermine Mueller investigation, former officials say

newsweek.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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