Putin is a mafioso who happens to own a government, an army, and a secret police force. He's like Sinaloa but wildly more ambitious, with fingers in all kinds o

Putin is a mafioso who happens to own a government, an army, and a secret police force. He's like Sinaloa but wildly more ambitious, with fingers in all kinds of enterprises, criminal and otherwise. There is no chance he could have become president without the support of the Russian mafia, which is the biggest in the world. It would be hugely surprising if he didn't owe some very unpleasant people - like Semion Mogilevich - for it.