Guest: 

Mark Galeotti is a senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and an expert and prolific author on transnational crime and the Russian security services. He runs in the In Moscow’s Shadows blog and is the author of several books. His new book is The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press.

Music:

The Clash, “Police and Thieves,” The Clash, 1977.