This blog’s author, Dr Mark Galeotti has been researching Russian history and security issues since the late 1980s.
Educated at Cambridge University and the LSE, he is now a senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and for 2018-19 a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He is also the director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence. Previously he has been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, head of the History department at Keele University in the UK, an adviser at the British Foreign Office and a visiting professor at MGIMO (Moscow), Charles University (Prague) and Rutgers (Newark), as well as a visiting fellow with the ECFR.
His books include Spetsnaz: Russia’s Special Forces (Osprey) and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale University Press) and the edited collections The Politics of Security in Modern Russia (Ashgate) and Russian & Soviet Organized Crime (Ashgate) and he is a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review, Oxford Analytica and many other outlets. He is a columnist for Raam op Rusland and the Moscow Times.
KULIKOVO 1380: THE BATTLE THAT MADE RUSSIA (Osprey, February 2019)
RUSSIAN POLITICAL WAR: MOVING BEYOND THE HYBRID (Routledge, 2019)
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PUTIN (Ebury, 2019)
ARMIES OF RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE (Osprey, 2019)
On 27 September, I was delighted to give a talk at the splendid Mob Museum (formally the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement) in Las Vegas, in their Wiseguy series. My talk was based, inevitably, on my book The Vory. The video of the presentation is available here.
Robert Eckart
/ September 30, 2018I wrote the Mob Museum last week for the link to your presentation. They responded in a very accommodating manner. FWIW. Cheers!
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 12:01 PM In Moscow’s Shadows wrote:
> Mark Galeotti posted: “On 27 September, I was delighted to give a talk at > the splendid Mob Museum (formally the National Museum of Organized Crime > and Law Enforcement) in Las Vegas, in their Wiseguy series. My talk was > based, inevitably, on my book The Vory. The video of the pr” >