The American visual artist enjoys worldwide fame for his colossal nudes and human installations in urban and natural environments. Spencer Tunick’s work defies genres, transforming both landscapes and the human form into powerful works of art. The photographs are at the same time painting, sculptural and performance installations. Tunick has produced over 120 nude…
The legendary UBOP investigator Valery Kur told how KGB agent Viktor Medvedchuk, together with his brothers Grigory and Igor Surkis, created an organized criminal group in Kyiv and how this group seized the Dynamo football club. Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, according to Kur, was aware of what was happening. The ex-head of the Organized…
Mentions of the city are found from the 7th century. It is known that he was repeatedly attacked by enemies, and in 863 the city was destroyed by the Normans. Located ninety kilometers from the sea, in the upper reaches of the mouth of the Scheldt, the depth of which allows the passage of ships,…
There are many criminal specialties. There are officially about 30 specialties of thieves alone, although in practice, of course, there are more of them. Such a variety of criminal specializations is determined by the laws of the development of society and reflects its specific historical realities. An industrial society, unlike an agrarian one, is characterized…
The improvement of economic, political, social, ideological, spiritual and other relations that take place in the process of building a legal state is the factor that undermines the roots of organized crime. In the fight against this phenomenon, general social measures to improve law enforcement activities are of primary importance, which requires: 1). To complete…
Among the ancient cities of Belgium, Bruges has preserved its medieval appearance almost intact to this day with the greatest perseverance and care. It is called “dead Bruges”, “sleepy Bruges”, and it really sleeps among the luxury of ancient buildings, quiet canals, humpbacked bridges, green embankments, immersed in the past, long gone. Seven tower fortress…
A group of engineers from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University has developed the Pyrorank algorithm, which should change the practice of information search and cope with the “curse of the information bubble.” As you know, over the past decades, search results have become a marketing tool. Software giants like Google…
The main goal of criminal organizations is to obtain excess profits, which should somehow be legalized (laundered). Otherwise, the meaning of their activity disappears. The definition of money laundering was proposed by the Special Financial Action Task Force (GAFI) at the UN Congress in Havana in 1990. It boils down to: — changes or transfers…
The term “transnational” is usually used to denote the flow of information, money, people, and material resources across state borders. Criminal organizations also engage in operations that require the crossing of national borders. It is not for nothing that smuggling is often called the second oldest profession in the world. Thus, high profits from illegal…
“How much should you weigh in grams?” – or a brief history of fraud from antiquity to the present day Even the most eminent historian will not tell how old trading scales are. The first samples found by archaeologists in Mesopotamia date back to the fifth millennium BC. The mighty Hittites, a people repeatedly mentioned…
Organized crime developed objectively on the basis of serious socio-economic, political, ideological, moral, legal and other problems arising in society. This is not just a new type of crime, but a special socially negative phenomenon closely related to the shadow economy and corruption. We started talking about the shadow economy quite recently. But for foreign…
With regard to science, its contribution to the development of this problem cannot be considered satisfactory, although positive developments have appeared recently. In textbooks and monographs on criminology, the authors resorted only to such formulations as “elements of organized crime”, “especially dangerous manifestations of group crime”, “leadership in a criminal environment”, “organization of criminal groups”,…
What is Belgium Flower Carpet? “Flower Carpet (Brussels)” Just as the name suggests, the Brussels Flower Carpet is a carpet made of flowers. Well, it’s not really a carpet, but it sure looks like it… Set on the main town square of Brussels, UNESCO World Heritage Site Grand Place, the flower carpet is…
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