MAFIA VS. NOMENKLATURA IN DAGHESTAN.

There has been a”battle of titans” in Daghestan, Vechernyaya Kazan saidMay 30. The Tatarstan paper noted that the mafia and thenomenklatura had fought it out in recent elections in thesouthern Russian republic; not surprisingly, the paper said,the nomenklatura had won the elections, but the mafia hadincreased its role, often by promoting interethnic violencethere.

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