RUSSIAN REBEL By MICHAEL BARONI. Profit Magazine. September 1999 Imagine you are a teenage physics genius who quickly amasses a $300 million empire of real estate and banking ventures, has dozens of cars, six hundred employees, several mansions, and two hundred bodyguards - but you are nonetheless kidnapped by those whom you trusted most, threatened with torture and death, and have your entire ...

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Worldwide Media Relations Russian Mafia Shakes Down the Country by Steven R. Van Hook (First published November 20, 1994) The row-upon-row of Russian faces stared at me, expectantly, anxiously, but furrowed with frustration. Frustrated Russian faces, just look! It excited me. It was a reason for celebration, I thought. I told them why: When I first entered what was then still the stagnant Soviet ...

Cemetery explosion draws attention to Russian Mafia MOSCOW (AP) - A cemetery blast that killed 12 people led to new charges Monday that Russian officials have ties to the Mafia, and more questions about multimillion-dollar funds supported by tax exemptions. Mitrofan Amosov, an official of the lucrative Afghan Veterans Foundation whose leaders were the targets of the blast, blamed the attack on ...