"Grinda stated that he considers Belarus, Chechnya, and Russia to be virtual "mafia states" ... One cannot differentiate between the activities of the government and OC [organized crime] groups."
— Mafia state

January 1, 1970

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Spanish prosecutor José Grinda Gonzalez, 13 January 2010, as cited in Luke Harding's Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia (2011).