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# Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent vignettes!  Chap by Chap summary here
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2004*

This book is an outstanding series of vignettes (there! I used that word) but is unbalanced in that nothing positive is described.  But it's good to read, like modern crime non-fiction.Some 'favorites':Introduction:  Miss Russia 1996 is killed being at wrong place, wrong time when Russian Mafia bump off her benefactor.Chap 1:  On the Kursk, and Russian cover-upChap 2:  Ryazan incident.  WORTH THE PRICE OF THE BOOK.  This is a spectacular chapter.  I won't spoil it with spoilers but the circumstantial evidence is very strong that the Russian FSB (like FBI) basically planted bombs in 1999 to justify a second invasion of Chechyna.  But I will give one spoiler:  the Duma, on a pro-Kremlin party block vote, voted to seal the Ryazan incident and all materials used for the next 75 years and forbade an investigation of what really happened.  The official explanation (which defies logic):  'The FSB was conducting an unannounced training exercise involving non-explosive materials with civilians as the target, and were caught by mistake by the local Ryazan police.  The local police, despite having state of the art bomb detecting equipment and many hours of defusing actual bombs, misdiagnosed the material used in the training exercise as hexogen; in fact it was sugar.  The FSB attempted to flee the area undetected after the bomb was found in accordance with training procedures, to see if they could escape"  Do you think this would fly with the American people?  But having visited Russia I can assure you--it works in Russia because nobody short of a suicidal or brave journalist wants to know.  Patriot Games with a vengence.Chap 3- Gaidar/Chubais and the Young Reformers.  Not that interesting since better done in other books.Chap 4 - The History of Reform - " "Chap 5 - The Gold Seekers - on the MMM pyramid scheme and the guy that got away (senatorial immunity)Chap 6 - The Workers--how they get shafted after management buys out their factory at 1/1000th market value in a rigged auction and then offshores the capital (leaving the factory running at a technical loss).  Better covered by Klebnikov's "Godfather of the Kremlin"Chap 7 - Law Enforcement - where crooks are copsChap 8 - Organized Crime - a lovely tale about two stubborn Canadians who wanted to open an ex-pat bar in Moscow.  They did, after becoming managers for rival mafia gangs.  But ironically they love it.  Typical foreigner in Russia mindset--they love the great sex and excitement of Eastern Europe.Chap 9 - Ulyanovsk - hunger strike claims a victimChap 10 - Vladivostok - the mayor, who for once is a decent person loved by the population (which generally backs anybody with power), is run out of town by a mafia.Chap 11 - Krasnoyarsk - the infamous aluminum factory run by convicted gangster Bykov and his friends (some still on Forbes Richest 400 Russians list, and all under 40 years old, some under 30).  Value add, Russian style.  Read this to see what it costs to convict a mafiya member in Russia--a lot of innocent people have to first die, even die testifying.  And our friend  Bykov?  He'll be eligible for parole soon.Chap 12 - The value of human life - zero.  Some case studies including surgery without lights (patient died); falling into a boiling hot water sinkhole (not uncommon since Moscow uses hot water to heat buildings, in fact, happens every  other year).  Boy and father trying to rescue him both die--slow agonizing deaths "4th degree burns".  Woman trying to find her soldier son's corpse in Chechyna finds cadavers routinely appear to be mistakenly identified and buried under wrong name.Chap 13 - Criminalization of Consciousness - on the Uralmash criminal gang, and how free beer and candy won over the hearts of the populace.  Typical Russian tactic.  Gang got elected to power.Chap 14 - Conclusion

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Chilling but fascinating
  

*by O***T on Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2022*

The book provides a detailed factual account of man's inhumanity to man in the context of Russia after the fall of the USSR. I do wonder what was the role of Western 'advisers' in the looting of Russia's natural resources and other assets by those who became oligarchs.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A country forever adrift and lost.
  

*by U***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022*

The history of Russia is a story of a lost nation. No leader has ever emerged there to inspire basic moral decency at the governing end . The population is largely a victim in perpetuity.

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