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Russia's battle with crime, corruption and terrorism
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ISBN: 9780415428231 9780203892657 0415428238 0203892658 1283961911 1134089015 9781134089017 9781283961912 9781134088966 9781134089000 9780415543132 1134089007 Year: 2008 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge

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This book examines Russia's attempts to tackle the challenges of the new and increasing security threats of rising crime, corruption and terrorism that it has experienced since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. It demonstrates the close links between the rising drug trade, border problems, migration issues, organised crime, corruption and terrorism.Uncovering information not seen before by Western audiences, this book:shows how Russia's porous borders have facilitated the operation of transnational crime groupsexplores the specific features that make part


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The Cuban connection
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ISBN: 1469605724 0807888583 9780807888582 9781469605722 9780807831755 0807831751 1469632101 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chapel Hill Univ. of North Carolina Press

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A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution. Eduardo Saenz Rovner argues that Cuba's historically well-established integration into international migration, commerce, and transportation networks combined with political instability and rampant official corruption to help lay the foundation for the develop

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