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International conference organized by "JurInfoR-MSU" Institute for Contemporary Education, “JurInfoR” center, the Criminalists and Criminologists’ Union (Moscow), and the U.S. Department of Justice, 20-21 May, 1997, Moscow

On combating new types of economic crimes in Russia and the United States

Authoritarianism of post-Soviet organized crime on economy in Russia

Louise Shelley

Post-Soviet organized crime represents a new form of non-state based authoritarianism. Citizens are intimidated by non-state actors in the form of organized crime groups. The coercive apparatus of the state has been privatized to organized crime. The international reach of post-Soviet organized crime groups causes them to intimidate individuals and the media outside the confines of the CIS. Traditional authoritarianism is based on total state control. The authoritarianism of organized crime represents abnegation of the state's obligation to its citizenry and reflects its inability to protect them from threats against their life, livelihood or economic security. Organized crime is such a threat because the government is weak and simultaneously compromised by the corrupting influences of crime groups. Government structures fail to protect their citizens because they are collusive and complicit in the organized crime activity.

The authoritarianism of post-Soviet organized crime manifests itself in the following ways:

1) Domination of economy and ruling structures

2) Intimidation of citizenry

3) Privatization of state coercion

4) Intimidation of press and journalists domestically and internationally

5) Privatization of state resources to organized crime

6) Subversion of emergent civil society

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