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|style="font-size:1.1em;"| The Bulgarian term ''Silovi Grupirovki''(Силови Групировки) can be literally translated as violent groups. The term, which is widely known in Bulgaria, can also be understood as a pun; in Bulgarian ''sila'' means both power and violence (Langenscheidt 2005: 180<ref>Langenscheidts Universal-Wörterbuch Bulgarisch. 2005. Bulgarisch-Deutsch. Deutsch-Bulgarisch. Berlin und München: Langendscheidt KG</ref>). The term is also commonly translated in English as ‘violent entrepreneurship’ and is used to describe a form of organised crime that developed in Bulgaria during the transition period of the 1990s (CSD 2009: 3<ref>Center for the Study of Democracy. 2009. Crime without Punishment: Countering Corruption and Organized Crime in Bulgaria (Report Summary), Sofia, URL: http://www.csd.bg/fileSrc.php?id=2655</ref>).
|style="font-size:1.1em;"| The Bulgarian term ''Silovi Grupirovki'' (Силови Групировки) can be literally translated as violent groups. The term, which is widely known in Bulgaria, can also be understood as a pun; in Bulgarian ''sila'' means both power and violence (Langenscheidt 2005: 180<ref>Langenscheidts Universal-Wörterbuch Bulgarisch. 2005. Bulgarisch-Deutsch. Deutsch-Bulgarisch. Berlin und München: Langendscheidt KG</ref>). The term is also commonly translated in English as ‘violent entrepreneurship’ and is used to describe a form of organised crime that developed in Bulgaria during the transition period of the 1990s (CSD 2009: 3<ref>Center for the Study of Democracy. 2009. Crime without Punishment: Countering Corruption and Organized Crime in Bulgaria (Report Summary), Sofia, URL: http://www.csd.bg/fileSrc.php?id=2655</ref>).
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