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DESCRIPTION:LIVE WEBINAR\nTHE CHEKIST-GANGSTER NEXUS: The Weaponization of 
 Organized Crime by Russian Secret Services in Russia and Abroad\nWednesday
 \, 2 October 202412:30 PM US Eastern Standard Time / 18:30 PM Central Euro
 pean Time\nLIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7yEYL6hbpI Il webinar si
  svolgerà in lingua inglese\nPANELISTS:\nYuri Felshtinsky (Historian and A
 uthor)Olga Lautman (Investigative Researcher and Senior Fellow\, Center fo
 r European Policy Analysis (CEPA))Dina Khapaeva (Scholar of Historical Mem
 ory\, Russian Program Director at the School of Modern Languages\, the Geo
 rgia Institute of Technology)Anastasia Kirilenko (Investigative Journalist
 \, The Insider)\nMODERATOR:Donald N. Jensen (Adjunct Fellow\, Foundation f
 or Defense of Democracies (FDD)\nCONCLUDING REMARKS:Luigi Sergio Germani (
 Director\, Gino Germani Institute)\nMafia groups and international crimina
 l syndicates serve as tools of statecraft\, hybrid warfare\, and self-enri
 chment to those in the Putin regime. The KGB-organized crime nexus in Sovi
 et times and its subsequent evolution is a neglected topic in Western anal
 ysis\, but it is crucial for understanding the Putin system and its possib
 le futures.\nThis alliance has expanded and become more deeply intertwined
  under Putin\, according to open-source evidence. For example\, the FSB’s 
 role in guarding regime security\, controlling society\, and fighting corr
 uption has expanded while the FSB itself has become increasingly corrupt a
 nd criminalized. Western experts have also noted intensifying Russian secr
 et service use of organized crime networks for intelligence gathering and 
 influence operations in the West\, including “strategic corruption” activi
 ties.\nIn this webinar\, six experts will examine the Chekist-organized cr
 ime nexus\, the impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine\, and the futu
 re – concerning both Putin’s regime and Russian subversive activity abroad
 . The webinar is open to the public/free of charge. https://takethedate.it
 /tutti-gli-eventi/Eventi/43592-the-chekist-gangster-nexus-the-weaponizatio
 n-of-organized-crime-by-russian-secret-services-in-russia-and-abroad.html
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SUMMARY:The Chekist-Gangster Nexus: The Weaponization of Organized Crime by
  Russian Secret Services in Russia and Abroad
URL:https://takethedate.it/tutti-gli-eventi/Eventi/43592-the-chekist-gangst
 er-nexus-the-weaponization-of-organized-crime-by-russian-secret-services-i
 n-russia-and-abroad.html
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