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It's been a mafia-run semi-lawless place almost since the fall of Communism. Really not clear how it's going to get out of this state.

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Technically speaking, it became mafia-run the moment Eltsin got guarantees for himself and his family and agreed to give-up power to mafia-KGB-chimera representative Putin.

Are royal families mafias themselves? If so, Communism rose by deposing one mafia, which of course morphed into a different but similar mafia?

Sort of the history of Europe in many instances?

By this logic it's mafias all the way up. Every government takes protection money / taxes whether you like it or not, and will send men with guns if you don't pay. It's all about who has a monopoly on violence.

Democratic government is by far the best solution to this dilemma.

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