Yeltsin... would... describe Russia as "the biggest mafia state in the world."

Note: Boris Yeltsin, address to the Duma (1994) Ref: 1) Kate Ebbage, "Russia: What has Precipitated the Rise of Criminal Activity?" Journal of Money Laundering Control, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1999) See also: Stephen Handelman, "The Russian 'Mafiya'" Foreign Affairs (Mar/Apr 1994)