Estonian mafia is a loose alliance of Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n mobster groups, principally of Russian groups ethnic or origins, with a wide range of different rackets. The rackets are prostitution, motorvehicle theft, drug trafficking, and previously also "providing" workers to building contracts in Finland, when the mafia was taking its share of the workers' salaries.

Further reading

• Taagepera, Rein. Estonia: Return to Independence. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8133-1703-7
• Volkan, Vamik D. Bloodlines: from ethnic pride to ethnic terrorism. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8133-9038-9
• Constable, Scott. "Christian and Me". ISBN 0 471 91332 4