Volume 42, Number 12 · July 13, 1995
Russia: The Power of the Mob
By Jack F. Matlock
Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya
by Stephen Handelman
Yale University Press, 398 pp., $27.50
Early Thursday morning, June 8, 1995, FBI agents burst into an apartment in Brighton Beach and placed a burly, balding Russian under arrest. Subsequently, when he was taken to the Federal District Court in Brooklyn for a preliminary hearing on charges of extortion, the FBI identified him as Vyacheslav Ivankov, a man known as 'Yaponets' (The Japanese), who has long been considered one of the kingpins in the shadowy but increasingly active Russian underworld. The arrest was the most tangible evidence to date that Russian syndicates had spread into North America.
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