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• Krysha (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)
  ...sations providing a range of services, predominantly illicit, ranging from protection and patronage to enforcement of contracts and settlement of disputes ...phemism]] – [[:Category: Patronage| Patronage]] – [[:Category: Protection| Protection]] – [[:Category: Triangle| Triangle]]
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• Otzhim (Russia)
  ...tortion]] – [[:Category: Violence| Violence]] – [[:Category: Protection| Protection]] – [[:Category: Intimidation| Intimidation]] – [[:Category: Organise [[Category: Protection]]
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• Okkul’t (Russia)
  ...anism]] – [[:Category: Influence| Influence]] – [[:Category: Protection| Protection]] – [[:Category: Unconventional governance| Unconventional governance]] [[Category: Protection]]
  12 KB (1,641 words) - 10:46, 21 July 2022
• Partiti (Corsica)
  ...e clan outside of the village. These are clients of the clan, who gain its protection in exchange for services. This type of patron-client relationship seems to ...turn solidifies bonds of solidarity between clan members and ensures their protection and 'help with difficulties'. Clan members are loyal to one another and hel
  11 KB (1,589 words) - 13:46, 6 December 2020
• Smotryashchie, kuratory (Russia)
  ...Organised crime]] – [[:Category: Elite| Elite]] – [[:Category: Protection| Protection]] – [[:Category: Clan| Clan]] – [[:Category: Kinship| Kinship]] – [[: [[Category: Protection]]
  10 KB (1,347 words) - 10:53, 22 May 2019
• Obshchak (Russia)
  ...Moscow: Samotsvet</ref><ref>Varese, F. 2001. ''The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy''. Oxford: Oxford University Press</ref><ref>Dolgov ...afias<ref>Gambetta, D. 1996. ''The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection''. London: Harvard University Press</ref>. The colloquial use of the word '
  12 KB (1,793 words) - 15:55, 10 September 2019
• Blat (Russia)
  ...FSU| FSU]] – [[:Category: Contacts| Contacts]] – [[:Category: Protection| Protection]] – [[:Category: Patronage| Patronage]] – [[:Category: Mutual help| Mut [[Category: Protection]]
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• Lesboseksprosvet (Russia)
  ...een women. Thematic range of these activities includes lesbian healthcare, protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), psychological safety in sex ...ime, most of them called for sexual abstinence before marriage as a way of protection against STIs and unwanted pregnancy. Medical discourse about sexuality stil
  12 KB (1,710 words) - 12:12, 23 September 2020
• Gazar gerchilgeeg dagdag (Mongolia)
  ...nfident that possession of the certificate(''gerchilgee'') offers adequate protection (Plueckhahn 2020: 104–6<ref>Plueckhahn, R. 2020. ''Shaping Urban Futures ...nomic Forum ranks Mongolia among the weakest worldwide for property-rights protection, but its urban real-estate markets remain active (World Economic Forum 2019
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• Omertà (Italy)
  ...t enables such organisation to rely on the omertà of entire communities as protection against investigation and/or prosecution by state law-enforcement agencies. ...as it is in popular culture, may or may not have anything to do with mafia protection-rackets and/or a low sense of civic duty.
  10 KB (1,544 words) - 14:12, 22 May 2019
• Torpil (Turkey)
  ...his business/calling card is my acquaintance’) is commonly used to suggest protection. In particular, before mobile phones were in common usage, businessmen and
  10 KB (1,422 words) - 14:57, 23 May 2019
• Moai (Japan)
  ...going on to higher education, travel" (Ryukyu Government Cultural Property Protection Committee 1972, 382). Ryukyu Government Cultural Property Protection Committee. 1972. ''Okinawa Cultural History Encyclopedia'', Tokyodo Publish
  10 KB (1,442 words) - 15:58, 2 September 2022
• Toqal / Tokal (Kazakhstan)
  ...rrent imbalance between the number of women and men and to give them legal protection as a formal spouse). Some deputies pointed out that current practices of ma ...' status has legal and social drawbacks for women. It does not carry legal protection and does not offer the right to property as a spouse. ''Toqal'' may not hav
  11 KB (1,672 words) - 11:54, 25 February 2020
• Titushky (Ukraine)
  ...ion| Intimidation]] – [[:Category: Gang| Gang]] – [[:Category: Protection| Protection]] – [[:Category: Euromaidan| Euromaidan]] – [[:Category: Rent-a-mob| Re [[Category: Protection]]
  14 KB (1,927 words) - 13:57, 11 May 2020
• Side Hustles via Social Media (Oman, Kuwait and the Gulf)
  ...work and social legitimacy, also limits access to formal financing, legal protection and long-term scalability (Williams and Schneider 2016<ref>C.C. Williams an ..., with implications for government revenue through lost taxation, consumer protection and competitive fairness between registered and unregistered businesses (Ul
  11 KB (1,415 words) - 17:39, 12 May 2026
• Mahallah (Uzbekistan)
  ...he means whereby people obtain access to public goods, services and social protection while bypassing the state. It is therefore necessary to distinguish between Given the existence during the Soviet period of an all-encompassing social protection system, people in those days felt less need for a mahalla-based welfare sys
  12 KB (1,698 words) - 16:09, 17 May 2019
• Nikoh (Tajikistan)
  ...for young girls led families to give away their daughters to ensure their protection. For men, in turn, the state of war offered the opportunity to access women ...emselves and their children, leaving them subject to ''talaq'' without the protection of the law (Cleuziou, 2016).
  12 KB (1,677 words) - 17:22, 27 November 2022
• Baksy (Kazakhstan)
  ...2006). While the former may protect people, the latter people should seek protection from. Embodying the spirits, and mastering them, is what makes a ''baksy''. ..., paralysis, childhood diseases, female infertility. They can also install protection or remove damage from ‘an evil eye.’ The methods of treatment of contem
  12 KB (1,782 words) - 13:11, 27 January 2020
• Hyvä Veli (Finland)
  ...f government resources (kleptocracy), as well as political or professional protection (Salminen and Mäntysalo, 2012<ref>Salminen, A., & Mäntysalo, V. (2012). O
  14 KB (1,986 words) - 14:04, 30 April 2020
• Bajanje (Serbia and the Western Balkans)
  ...se of illness from the shape of metal. This act is both a divination and a protection against an evil charm (''urok'') (Milisavljević 2001). By ‘seeing’ and ...pocryphal prayers, often invoking God, Jesus or a saint to ask for help or protection (Kropej in Roper 2009). An example of a ''basm''a in a formula-form:
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