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Russian Mafia Leader Aslan Usoyan Gunned Down Outside of Central Moscow Restaurant Karetny Dvor

Russian mafia boss Aslan Usoyan, a 75-year-old gangster nicknamed Grandpa Khasan, was shot in the head by a sniper atop the sixth floor of an adjacent building according to a Russian Investigative Committee report. Usoyan later died at a hospital, leaving his organization leaderless, leading law-enforcement officials to fear for the outbreak of a violent […]

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August 1991.

Was the suppression of the coup against Gorbachev a victory for democracy? Twenty years after the events of August 1991, many Russians’ views of these events have changed considerably. The Levada group which conducts polling in Russia on the issue recorded that one quarter of the population saw the suppression of the coup as a […]

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