Powerful businessmen, notorious criminals and high-level officials in the government it is all intertwined.
yes, but usually under a dictatorship (and putin is a dictator) the mafia is weaker, not stronger putin uses gangsters or ex kgb members to do some dirty work and he gets ride of them after
I agree without Putin it would be chaos like in the 90s. BTW he won today with 75% of the votes.