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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...back to 2007, two years after Oniani returned to Russia from Spain when police broke up his racketeering operations there. As Oniani sought to re-establish himself in Moscow, he started encroaching on Usoyan's territory, and Usoyan's top lieutenants began turning up dead. One of them, Alek Minalyan, an Armenian allegedly in charge of extorting money from construction firms working on projects for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, was gunned down in western Moscow on Feb. 6. The bodies of two others, Andrei Golubev and an unidentified associate, were found riddled with bullets in eastern Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will New Laws Help Russia Take Down the Mafia? | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

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