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[i_veto_you]

I have a paper due in eleven hours on the Russian Mafia. I chose the topic because I thought it sounded interesting.

What I failed to take into account, however, is that I'M WRITING ABOUT A FUCKING SECRET CRIMINAL SOCIETY, so there's really only so much google can help me.

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[kakodaimon]

For some reason, I was directed here by Alex... but fortunately, it just so happens I have a resource for you - if you've time. Vodka, Tears, and Lenin's Angel features some very interesting bits on the Mafia as well as its intersections with Russian business elite. It also includes some first-hand accounts of misadventures the author had with mafiosos while researching for the book. Very easy to get through (journalistic style), but thoroughly credible.

[i_veto_you]

Thanks for the tip...unfortunately it came a little too late--seeing as I left my paper until the last minute--but I appreciate the thought. ;)

[kakodaimon]

Alas. Hope it'll go over well, then.

*bow*

[agentpirate]

For christ's sake, you're DATING one of them. Surely he can tell you something.

[i_veto_you]

But then he'd have to keeeeell me.