Crime in Russia

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Comparison of homicide rates, 2004.
Comparison of homicide rates, 2004.

Crime in Russia is present in various forms. Organized crime include drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, extortion, murder for hire, fraud etc. Many criminal operations engage in corruption, black marketeering, terrorism, abduction etc. Other forms of crime perpetrated by criminal groups are arms trafficking, export of contraband oil and metals, and smuggling of radioactive substances.[1] In 1997, approximately 8,000 criminal formations operated in the country.[1][update needed] In 2000 it was estimated that nearly 50% of the nation's economy was linked with organized crime.[2][3][update needed]

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[edit] History

Comparison of the crime rates of the Soviet Union with those of other nations is considered difficult, because the Soviet Union did not publish comprehensive crime statistics.[4] According to Western experts, robberies, homicide and other violent crimes were less prevalent in the Soviet Union than in the United States because the Soviet Union had a larger police force, strict gun controls, and had a low occurrence of drug abuse.[4] However, white-collar crime was prevalent in the Soviet system. Corruption in the form of bribery was common, primarily due to the paucity of goods and services on the open market.[4] Theft of state property by state employees was also common.[4] When Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the CPSU, an effort was made to stop white-collar crime.[4] Revelations of corruption scandals involving high-level employees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were published regularly in the news media of the Soviet Union, and many arrests and prosecutions resulted from such discoveries.[4] An article published in the Izvestia in 1994 described the difference between the situation of crime in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia:[5]

Crime was never able to gain enough strength to compete with the state's law enforcement system. The criminal world had ties with the police, but it was all kept deeply hidden. Money had influence, but it was not all-powerful. Laundering the profits from crime was difficult, and spending the profits equally so. There were millionaires, but they were underground. There were gangs - but to get weapons they had to run numerous risks. We had it all. But it was all under the surface.[5]

The crime rate in Russia sharply increased during the late 1980s.[6] The fall of communism in Eastern Europe had tremendous influence on the political economy of organized crime.[7] The collapse of the Soviet Union destroyed much of the systems and infrastructures that provided social security and a minimal standard of living for the population,[8] and law and order across the country broke down resulting in outbreak of crime.[9] In the transition to a free market economy, production fell and there was huge capital flight coupled with low foreign investment.[8] Due to these factors, economic instability increased and a newly impoverished population emerged, accompanied by unemployment and unpaid wages. [8] Extreme poverty as well as unpaid wages resulted in an increase in theft and counterfeiting.[2] Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, organized criminal groups in Russia and other former Soviet republics have been involved in different illegal activities such as drug trafficking, arms trafficking, car theft, human trafficking and money laundering being the most common.[10] The internationalization of the Russian Mafia along with the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra, the Triads and the Yakuza played a vital role in the development of transnational crime[7] involving Russia. From 1991 to 1992, the number of both officially reported crimes and the overall crime rate increased by 27%.[4] By the early 1990s, theft, burglary, and other property crimes accounted for nearly two-thirds of all crime in the country.[4] There was a rapid growth of violent crime, including homicides.[4]

[edit] Drug trafficking

Drug trafficking and illicit drug use is a significant problem in the country.[11][12] The disintegration of the Soviet Union, the civil war in Afghanistan, the civil war in Tajikistan, and the conflicts in the North Caucasus have made the favorable conditions for the development of illegal drug trade.[13] In the early 1990s, use of cocaine was increasingly noted among the young population of the nation.[14] In the mid-1990s, the growing drug abuse that appeared in Russia was caused by lack of border controls,[14] and the country became one of the world's major transit corridors of drug trafficking.[15] The entrance of producers of cocaine of South America in the Russian market was proved by intercepting cocaine shipments in Saint Petersburg in 1993.[14] As of 1996 internal production of narcotic substances was also rising in Russia.[14] Limited quantity of illicit cannabis is cultivated in the country.[16] Opium poppies and marijuana are cultivated illegally in the Southern Federal District.[14] Russia is one of the two major drug producers along with Morocco, and one of the five major drug trafficking entry points along with Iran, Turkey, Italy and Spain in the Mediterranean region.[17] The drug trafficking also involves the supply of opium, heroin and marijuana from Central Asia and the Golden Crescent, comprising Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.[18] Russian drug rings work with the Sicilian mafia and the Colombian drug traffickers to import and distribute cocaine.[19] Many local Russian distributors have connections with criminal organizations in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Ukraine.[14] According to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, a regular trafficking route exists from Tajikistan to Rostov-on-Don via Turkmenistan, and from there to Western Europe.[14] Below are some drug-trafficking routes through the Russian Federation:

Name of Drug Source country Destination country
Poppy straw[20] Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine Estonia, Poland
Opium[20] Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Canada, Europe, Japan, US
Heroin[20] Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Australia, Canada, Europe, Israel, Japan, US
Cannabis[20] Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Republic of Korea, US
Cocaine[20] Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Europe, Venezuela, US Europe, Ghana, Oman, South Africa, Zambia

Between 1993 and 1995, the annual amount of seized narcotic substances increased from thirty-five tons to ninety tons.[14] At present approximately three to six million people use illicit drugs in Russia.[12] Russia has the biggest heroin problem along with Iran and Estonia.[21] Russia is a major consumer of opiates.[16]

Several measures have been taken by the government to combat drug trafficking. Russia is a party of the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.[14] In 1994, when Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia, a committee was founded for coordination of drug policy.[14] In 1995, a three-year counternarcotics program was approved for establishing drug treatment facilities, criminalization of drug abuse, extension of sentences for drug trafficking, and establishment of pharmaceuticals-monitoring process.[14] In two major anti-drug operations in 1997, fifty metric tons of narcotic substances were seized and approximately 1,400 criminal organizations engaged in drug trafficking were disrupted or destroyed.[18] In March 2003, Russian President Vladimir Putin established the Russian State Committee for Control over the Illegal Trafficking of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances for combating drug trafficking with more coordinated manner.[22]

[edit] Human trafficking

Russia is a supply, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children being trafficked for various purposes.[16][23] The trafficking is multidimensional and it involves both commercial sexual exploitation and labor exploitation.[23] Russia is a significant source of women trafficked to over 50 nations.[16] Internal trafficking is a problem in the country; women are trafficked from rural areas to urban settlements for commercial sexual exploitation.[16] Men are trafficked internally and from Central Asia for forced labor in the construction and agricultural industries.[16] Debt bondage is common among the trafficking victims.[16]

Russia is a transit and destination country for men and women being trafficked from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and North Korea to Central Europe, Western Europe, and the Middle East for forced labor and sexual exploitation.[16] Unemployment problem affected many women in the country which is an important factor behind the trafficking of women.[8] In 1995 approximately 20% of women were the sole wage earners for their families.[24] Unemployed women and desperate mothers are recruited with promises of jobs and good incomes outside of their region or country.[8] Many women involved in prostitution within Russia and abroad have cited the need to support their children as the main reason for being engaged in prostitution.[8] In the Volga region, many women including teachers, nurses, single mothers and schoolgirls were reportedly involved in prostitution to survive.[8] This resulted in increase in sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and AIDS in the region with syphilis rates reported to be four times higher in 1998 than they were in 1995.[8]

Worldwide, criminal organizations most frequently seize women and girls for commercial sexual exploitation from Russia along with the other former Soviet republics, large parts of Asia, Central America and South America.[25] Trafficking of women is controlled by Russian criminal organizations often in cooperation with foreign criminal groups in Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Italy, and Japan.[26] In 2003 approximately two-thirds of the women trafficked to Western Europe were from Russia.[26] Many women are sent to the United States, especially in New York, Florida, California, and Hawaii.[26] Some Russian criminal organizations control prostitution rings in parts of Europe and the United States.[26]

[edit] Arms trafficking

Arms trafficking has become a significant problem in the Russian Federation following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.[18] The former Eastern Bloc countries (including Russia) are the source of the majority of illegal weapons in circulation around the world.[27] Illegal arms possession is a problem in many regions in the nation, especially in the areas suffering from insurgency such as Chechnya and Dagestan.[28] Because of the general weakening of the government control and the decentralization of power in the nation in the first half of the 1990s, small arms from several military units and arsenals made their way into the hands of civilians and local unofficial armed formations.[28] Gunrunning in Russia stemmed from corruption in the armed forces and the illegal sale of military equipments.[18] It has been suggested that parts of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and arms industry were engaged in arms trafficking with the Chechen separatists.[29] Russian troops play an important role in arms trafficking especially in the war zones.[30] Poor salary for service persons coupled with lack of control over weapon storage resulted in troop involvement in illegal arms trade.[30] The Chief of the General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin publicly stated in 2003 that increasing corruption left the Russian military in a "post-critical state".[30]

There have been accusations and counter-accusations between Russia and Georgia regarding illegal arms selling to Chechen separatists. Russia alleged that Chechen separatists received weapons through illegal networks going to Chechnya through Georgia and Azerbaijan.[31] On the other hand, Georgia accused Russia of corruption on military bases, poor security infrastructure and low professionalism among Russian troops as the reasons behind the spread of illegal weapons.[31]

The types of firearms in illegal possession varies throughout the nation: in Siberia unregistered hunting rifles are the primarily found illegal weapons while in Chechnya the predominant illicit arms are illegally held military weapons.[28] Small arms are illegally proliferated from the main centers of small arms manufacturing, Tula and Izhevsk.[28] In 2003 an estimated 300,000 to 1.5 million illegal arms were in circulation within Russia.[28] According to the statistics from the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, 1.5 times more people were arrested for gunrunning in 2001 than in 2000; in total 26,113 arrests were made and 65,000 crimes were committed using illegal arms.[18] In 2000, the number of seized unregistered firearms was 300,000, which was a 37% increase compared with 1999.[18] Many Russian criminal organizations, aside from arms trafficking in Russia, provide weapons to the separatists groups in Chechnya.[7]

However several attempts were made to combat arms trafficking. Small arms manufacturers in the country have tightened their security systems.[28] Special prosecutors’ offices, which were originally set up in the 1950s for supervising secrecy in nuclear facilities, have been given the responsibility of the security of defense plants and curbing the theft of small arms from the plants.[28] The Government of Russia has undertaken a programme to increase security at arms storage facilities at military bases.[28]

[edit] Poaching

Poaching was extremely uncommon in the Soviet Union,[32] but has recently become a significant problem in the country. The main cause for poaching in Russia is the consequence of the social and political changes since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[33] State-controlled farms stopped functioning due to the fall of the previous system resulting in high unemployment.[33] Unemployment, poverty, inflation, shortage of food and demand for foreign currency have major impact on the wildlife in the country.[33] Between 1992 and 1996, law enforcement agencies in Russia mainly focused on drug trafficking, arms trafficking, money laundering and the First Chechen War. Environmental crimes like poaching and illegal timber smuggling were generally not treated as national security issues.[34] During the post-perestroika transition, the government agencies for environment and wildlife protection experienced severe budget cuts[34] which led to layoffs and salary reductions for wildlife rangers in places like Primorski Krai and it reduced the resources of the rangers to fight against the poachers.[35] Animals being poached in the country are bear, musk deer, tiger etc.[35] Approximately 50,000 cases of poaching are registered annually.[36][update needed] According to the tiger experts and enforcement officers in Russia, the characteristics of tiger poaching in Russia are:

It is believed that sharp increase in poaching in the first half of the 1990s resulted in rapid decrease of the Siberian tiger population.[38] According to estimation, there were 330 to 371 adult Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East in 1996 while the number was 600 at the end of the 1980s.[38] During the communist rule, borders were closed and access to the Asian demand for tiger products was almost non-existent.[39] Due to this, from 1972 to 1992, poaching was not reported.[39] But the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in easing of border controls and gun laws, and it became an urgent need for the villagers to earn income in a destroyed economy with high inflation.[39] Almost immediately tigers became similar to a profitable cash crop at a time when there was huge demand for tiger parts for Traditional Chinese medicine.[39] Data obtained from field examinations, skin confiscations and from radio-collared animals indicated that 58%-73% tiger deaths were related to poaching.[39] Poaching of tigers apparently peaked in the early 1990s.[40]

The collapse of communism in the country had a significant influence on the average Russian's economic ability to maintain his or her family. Because of the large population of bears in Russia and an increasing demand for bear parts, especially bile,[41] poaching of bears became increasingly popular. Its main trade partners in bear parts are primarily nearby Asian countries like South Korea and the People's Republic of China.[41] Poaching of the snow leopard is also a serious problem in Russia along with Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, People’s Republic of China, Russia, Tajikstan and Uzbekistan.[33] The situation for antelopes has deteriorated significantly since the collapse of the Soviet system.[42] There has been increase in poaching of the Saiga Antelope which reduced the Saiga population in the country.[42]

However several attempts were made to combat commercial poaching of animals. Operation Amba, started to curtail the poaching of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East,[43][44] is credited for bringing the Amur tiger back from the brink of extinction in the mid-1990s.[45][46][47]

[edit] Homicide

At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia had a higher homicide rate - nearly ten per 100,000 people per year.[48] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the rate remained stable and it was lower than in the United States.[48] There was a rise in the homicide rate in the mid-1960s and 1970s which peaked in 1980, and then slowly declined in until 1985, and then fall rapidly in 1986-1987.[48] Until the late 1980s, homicide rates in Russia were nearly similar to that in the United States.[48] The increase in homicide rate in Russia began slightly earlier than 1990,[6] and rose throughout the 1990s.[48] Homicides were more common in Russia than in the Baltic states in 1991 and nearly doubled in frequency by 1994-1995.[49] In 2003, homicide rate in Russia was among the highest in the world.[50] Below is a comparison of homicide rate in Russia from 1990 to 2001:

Year 1990[51] 1991[51] 1992[51] 1993[51] 1994[51] 1995[51] 1996[51] 1997[51] 1998[51] 1999[51] 2000[51] 2001[51]
Total Homicides 15,600 16,200 23,000 29,200 32,300 31,700 29,400 29,300 29,600 31,100 31,200 33,600

According to an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the homicide rate in Russia in January-November 2006 was 10% less than in the same period of 2005, but 15% of the cases were unsolved.[52] Andrei Kucheryavy, the head of a criminal police department, said in a news conference: "The number of killings has been gradually declining in the past four years, while the number of solved murders is increasing."[52] Approximately 23,500 cases of homicide were registered in 2006, of which 3,500 were unsolved, 9% less than the previous year.[52]

The age pattern of homicide victimization rates in Russia is different compared to that of the United States.[53] In 2001, 32% of the homicide victims in Russia were under the age of thirty-five, and 30% of the victims were fifty years or older.[54] There is a wide range of variation in homicide rates throughout the country; the homicide rate is relatively high in Siberia and Russian Far East compared to European Russia.[53]

[edit] Corruption

In Russia's criminal legislation, "corruption" is not defined as a specific crime, but a collective term which include bribery, abuse of office and others.[55] It is accepted in both inside and outside the country that corruption is widespread in Russia.[56] Corruption is often considered as a major factor behind economic problems in the nation.[56] According to a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 1997, the Commonwealth of Independent States was the most corrupt region in the world, with Russia (along with the other four CIS countries surveyed) received the maximum rating for corruption among public officials.[56] In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2007, Russia was ranked 143rd out of 179 countries for corruption (least corrupt countries are at the top of the list).[57] On a scale of 0 to 10 with 0 the most corrupt and 10 the most transparent, Transparency International rated Russia 2.3.[57] Corruption in Russia is often divided into two broad categories: "petty" corruption, where low-ranking government officials are engaged in bribery, and "high-level" corruption involving political and business elite.[56] Below are selected official data on corruption in Russia from 1997 to 2003:

Year 1997[58] 1998[58] 1999[58] 2000[58] 2001[58] 2002[58] 2003[58]
Embezzlement (prisvoenie or rastrata) - - - - 46,848 43,859 44,706
Bribery (vzyatochnichestvo) 5,068 5,805 6,823 7,047 7,909 7,311 7,346

Corruption in the police force is a significant problem in the country.[59] First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Vasilev claimed that 1,700 police persons were convicted of bribery or abuse of office in 2001 and the problem of corruption was under control.[59] But according to most observers, in reality the level of police corruption is much higher and state officials like to downplay the problem of corruption.[59]

Political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky said in an article written in early 2000 that the then current political system in Russia was "the highest stage of robber capitalism” [60]. He believes that "Russia is not corrupt. Corruption is what happens in all countries when businessmen offer officials large bribes for favors. Today’s Russia is unique. The businessmen, the politicians, and the bureaucrats are the same people. They have privatized the country’s wealth and taken control of its financial flows." [61] Such views are also shared by former CIA director James Woolsey who said in a 1999 Congressional Statement: "I have been particularly concerned for some years, beginning during my tenure, with the interpenetration of Russian organized crime, Russian intelligence and law enforcement, and Russian business. I have often illustrated this point with the following hypothetical: If you should chance to strike up a conversation with an articulate, English-speaking Russian in, say, the restaurant of one of the luxury hotels along Lake Geneva, and he is wearing a $3,000 suit and a pair of Gucci loafers, and he tells you that he is an executive of a Russian trading company and wants to talk to you about a joint venture, then there are four possibilities. He may be what he says he is. He may be a Russian intelligence officer working under commercial cover. He may be part of a Russian organized crime group. But the really interesting possibility is that he may be all three and that none of those three institutions have any problem with the arrangement." [62][63]

[edit] Crime statistics

In 1990, the number of registered crime was 1.84 million.[6] This figure increased to 2.8 million in 1993, then fall slightly.[6] In 1996, there was a total of 2.63 million officially registered crime, which was more than 40% higher than in 1990.[6] In 1999, total reported crime was 3 million, and it continued to increase in 2000 and 2001, and then fall in 2002.[6]

Crime statistics of Moscow for 1995 included a total of 93,560 cases of crime, of which 18,500 were white-collar crimes, an increase of 8.3% over 1994.[4] Among white-collar crimes, swindling increased 67.2 percent, and extortion 37.5 percent, in 1995.[4] Among the conventional crimes reported, homicide and attempted murder increased 1.5%, rape 6.5%, burglaries 6.6%.[4] Serious crimes by teenagers increased by 2.2 percent.[4] Majority of car thefts were reported from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, which increased through the first half of the 1990s.[4] In Moscow an estimated fifty cars were stolen per day, with the estimated yearly total for Russia between 100,000 and 150,000.[4] In the first four months in 1994, Russia averaged eighty-four murders per day.[4] Many of those crimes were contract killings by criminal organizations.[4] The 1995 national crime total exceeded 1.3 million, including 30,600 cases of homicide.[4]

[edit] International comparison

The homicide rate in Russia more than tripled between 1988 and 1994 and is now among the highest in the world.[64] In 1998, a total of 24,537,600 crimes were recorded in United States, while in Russia a total of 2,581,940 crimes were recorded.[65] In 1999, the number was 23,677,800 and 3,001,748 respectively.[65] Total recorded rapes in the United States was 93,140 and 89,110 for the years 1998 and 1999, while this number was 7,724 and 7,314 respectively for Russia.[65]

Country Russia[66] Germany[67] United Kingdom[68] France[68] Canada[69] United States[70] South Africa[68] Colombia[68] Poland[68] Japan[68]
Homicide rate 19.80 1.4 1.6 1.9 1.9 5.7 49.60 61.78 0.056 0.005
Year 2000 2000 2004 2004 2004 2006 2000 2000 2000 2000

Following is a comparison of various crimes per 1000 people from 1998 to 2000:

Country Russia Germany United Kingdom France Canada United States South Africa Colombia Poland Japan Italy Ukraine
Total crimes[71] 20.58 75.99 85.55 62.18 75.49 80.06 77.18 4.98 32.85 19.17 37.96 11.77
Car thefts[72] 0.182 1.008 5.605 4.971 4.885 3.879 20.15 49.60 1.765 2.430 4.197 0.0673
Robberies[73] 0.923 0.721 1.574 0.401 0.823 1.385 4.44 0.571 1.388 0.041 0.649 0.456
Frauds[74] 0.568 10.867 5.283 2.351 2.611 1.257 1.513 0.029 2.07 0.348 0.578 0.311
Rapes[75] 0.048 0.090 0.142 0.139 0.733 0.301 1.195 0.043 0.062 0.017 0.040 0.024

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

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[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

  • Sergeyev, Victor M. (1998), The Wild East: Crime and Lawlessness in Post-Communist Russia, M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 0765602318.
  • Ledeneva, Alena V. & Marina Kurkchiyan (2000), Economic Crime in Russia, Kluwer Law International, ISBN 9041197826.
  • Galeotti, Mark (1996), Mafiya: Organized Crime in Russia, Jane's Information Group.
  • Bäckman, Johan (1998), The Inflation of Crime in Russia: The Social Danger of the Emerging Markets, National Research Institute of Legal Policy, ISBN 9517042116.
  • J. Ljuba, Paul (1996), Organized Crime in Russia and United States National Security, Storming Media, ISBN 1423578635.
  • Paoli, Letizia (2001), Illegal Drug Trade in Russia: A Research Project Commissioned by the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Edition Iuscrim, ISBN 3861130386.


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