According to Wikileaks a Spanish prosecutor who specialises on the activities of the Russian mafia in Spain says that Belarus, Chechnya and Russia are virtual "mafia states" and said that Ukraine is going to be one.
Where is the news in that?
It reminds me of the British MP’s expenses scandal when the Telegraph newspaper “discovered” that MP’s had been “fiddling their expenses”. It would have been news to find they had not been fiddling expenses.