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#10 - RAS 14
FOLLOW-UP

In a note to one of the pieces on the criminal economy in the last issue (RAS No. 13 item 2) I admit to not knowing what RUBOP is. Several readers have been so kind as to inform me that it stands for Regional'noe upravlenie po bor'be s organizovannoi prestupnost'iu [Regional Administration (or Directorate) for the Fight Against Organized Crime], an agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the provincial level. A more usual abbreviation is RUOP.

Mark Galeotti draws attention to his Glossary of Russian Police and Security Service Acronyms and Abbreviations at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/hi/resources/modern%20resources/index.htm

And Matthew Maly writes: "Here is an organized crime story that is way worse than the ones most RUBOPs are dealing with."

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