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 researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and coordinates its Centre for European Security. 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 contributing editor to Business New Europe.
THE VORY from Yale University Press (A history of Russian organised crime), out April 2018 (UK) and May 2018 (USA)
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” >