Thieves by Law

Organized crime is hardly unique to any one nation or culture, but in recent decades the Russian Mafia has gone from being all but unknown in the West to one of the world's most famous (and most feared) criminal organizations. As both politics and the economy were in disarray after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's crime syndicates rose to almost unheard-of power, and three Russian mob bosses talk on camera about their lives and careers in Alexander Gentelev's documentary Thieves By Law