1.   As with all lucrative, illicit businesses in Russia, the pirate industry is tightly controlled by crime gangs.

2.   Bankers and businessmen in the new Russia face dozens of crime gangs and an almost powerless police force.

3.   He has four recent drunken driving convictions and difficulties with a local crime gang that he refused to specify.

4.   Here again, Russian crime gangs play a central role.

5.   In Europe, Arlacchi said, traffickers from Eastern Europe and Asia have already pushed crime gangs out of street prostitution in Western Europe.

6.   Local papers report that thousands of beggars and suspected members of crime gangs have been expelled or jailed for the duration.

7.   Schmidbauer has suggested that both international crime gangs and Russian officials could be involved.

8.   The drugs had been imported by Eastern European crime gangs from Colombia.

9.   This war is not about territory in the sense that crime gangs fight over territory.

10.   Police have blamed several murders in recent years on fights for control of lucrative enterprises by competing crime gangs.