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In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB's notorious prison. The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Vladimir Putin's spies used tactics developed by the KGB and perfected in the 1970s by the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police. This clandestine campaign burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow - the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a brilliant and haunting account of the insidious methods used by a resurgent Kremlin against its so-called "enemies" - human rights workers, western diplomats, journalists and opposition activists. It includes unpublished material from confidential US diplomatic cables, released last year by WikiLeaks, which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Harding gives a unique, personal and compelling portrait of today's Russia, two decades after the end of communism, that reads like a spy thriller.

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Mafia state
In politics, a mafia state is a state system where the government is tied with organized crime to the degree when government officials, the police, and or military became a part of the criminal enterprise. According to US diplomats, the phrase "mafia state" was coined by Alexander Litvinenko
Mafia States Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Regrettably, the mafia state is a phenomenon about which there is little available data. The analytic frameworks that governments are currently applying to the problem are primitive, based on outdated understandings about organized crime. Addressing this dearth of knowledge will require law enforcement authorities, intelligence agencies ...
Some reflections on the Mafia State The Malta Independent
We would definitely have a Mafia State if the machinery of government is tied with organised crime to the extent that state officials become part of a criminal partnership or organisation.
Mafia State (book)
Mafia State: how one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a 2011 book by British journalist Luke Harding. Synopsis. Mafia State recounts Harding's period as Russia correspondent for Britain's Guardian newspaper and the surveillance and espionage he was subject to; he alleges the Federal Security Service (FSB) was involved.
Inside Vladimir Putin’s “mafia state” The Economist
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Why Russia is not a mafia state | Postsocialism
Quite reasonably, even ‘ordinary’ readers criticised him for not defining why Russia is a ‘mafia state’ when so many other corrupt, kleptocratic regimes are not. Broadly, Harding uses it to indicate collaboration of security services with organised criminality, to indicate the ‘kick back’ ubiquity of corruption to higher officials ...
The EU’s Mafia State The Baltic Times
Consider Hungary, which has become a mafia state during the seven years of Viktor Orbán’s rule as Prime Minister. Hungary is unique in that it moved toward liberal democracy and joined the European Union before changing course and headed toward autocracy.
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Bulgaria as a Mafia State | RiskMonitor
The May edition of the prestigious Foreign Affairs journal dedicates a topic to the Mafia States. The article claims that "In mafia states such as Bulgaria, Guinea Bissau, Montenegro, Myanmar (aslo called Burma), Ukraine and Venezuela, the national interest and the interests of organized crime are now inextricably interwined."

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