Old news. The Russian government, for all practical purposes is the Russian mafia. Many people have written about this starting several years before Steve Blank

Old news. The Russian government, for all practical purposes is the Russian mafia. Many people have written about this starting several years before Steve Blank, the SV entrepreneur, wrote about it in 2008. In 2010, the US Diplomatic Cables Leak confirmed it, going on from there with Luke Harding's book Mafia State. You can get a pretty good look by reading the wikipedia article on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_state