Publications
5 publications
Karen Dawisha and the truth she spoke loudly
Many people and under various circumstances have developed serious hunches about Vladimir Putin’s shady financial ties to the St. Petersburg mafia and the symbiotic relationship with law enforcement…
Putin’s 4 percent: How criminal kingpins with Kremlin connections launder oil money in Monaco
As The Insider found out, money made by Russian businessmen with gang affiliations and Kremlin connections in Russian ports are still being laundered in Monaco and Liechtenstein—after…
A suitcase full of cash from the Solntsevo Mafia: does Putin have a compromat on the Hungarian leader?
Last week Vladimir Putin went to pay an official visit to Hungary, where he meet Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, one of the European leaders most loyal to the…
Putin to a Western country leader: “I’ll crush you”
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Ohio University political science professor Karen Dawisha while walking across Washington D.C. We discussed how Western leaders should feel about…
Why is the West so weak when it comes to the Russian mafia?
Putin's cronies. Putin's proxies. Putin is a Kleptocrat. These terms could have shocked us a decade ago, but thanks to recent outstanding investigations and civic initiatives, they have…