Russian Krysha Roof

Continuity in russian corruption through changing societal forms.

Russian krysha roof.

In russian krysha literally means roof but the word took on a second meaning in the late 1980s. For most russians bespredel was a horrible dispiriting condition but for criminals it was a fantastic business opportunity. Russian words for roof include крыша кровля потолок кров кровельный материал покрывать крыть крышу империал служить крышей and настилать крышу. The concept of krysha a russian criminal slang term meaning roof or in other words protection was a widespread phenomenon in the 1990s russian privatization process.

Krysha or roof is probably the most important word for explaining how the bandits functioned. Originating from criminal and law enforcement jargon the term krysha from the russian крышa krysha literally meaning roof is now broadly used to refer to individuals or organisations that provide a range of services predominantly illicit and informal ranging from protection and patronage to the enforcement of contracts and settlement of disputes. Protection from the elements yes but also from the organized criminals who flourished as the. One of the most prominent terms of the new russian criminal jargon is krysha which literally means roof throughout the cold war soviet intelligence services used this term to refer to a cover.