RUSSIAN POLICE DETAIN MAFIA CONGRESS FOR THREE HOURS.

The Russian militia arrested some 350 known mafia leaders from Russia, the former Soviet republics, and even from California, who were meeting in Sochi to plan strategy, Delovoy mir reported June 3. But the authorities were forced to release all of them after only three hours when it was discovered that none of them had guns or other weapons, the paper said.

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