11.   What follows is a typical Leonardian farce full of record producers and the threat of Russian gangsters.

12.   Authorities said they believe the five are victims of organized Russian gangsters.

13.   But Russian gangsters also have come along with the influx of Russian tourists, police said.

14.   In September, a reputed Russian gangster, Alexander Petrov, was acquitted in southern France on a charge of passport fraud.

15.   The inquiry found that Russian gangsters systematically threatened fellow traders, forcing them to turn over a part of the profits they made from exporting consumer goods to Russia.

16.   These Russian gangsters are experts in the fields they choose and have intricate webs of front companies, legal businesses and know-how to move drugs, prostitutes and weapons.

17.   They share data on Russian gangsters with the British, Australian and some European governments.

18.   Police have arrested an alleged Russian gangster on the French Riviera for dealing in false passports, judicial sources said Monday.