Thieves world -- Vor -- Mozhaisky embankment -- Comrade criminal -- Life and death on the Russian frontier -- The criminal state -- Post-Soviet man -- How to steal a billion rubles -- Masters of Moscow -- "They can shoot, they can kill" -- The smugglers -- Narco-Bizness -- The guns of Grozny -- Red army Bazaar -- The Baltic connection -- The evil empire revisited -- Cops and commissars -- General Sterligov and his friends -- The Chinatown gang -- Who lost Russia?