Demonised for living beyond the state borders of Eastern Europe. The Siberian urkas ancient and criminalised tradition's are on a clash with the ever shrinking modern world. Transported against their will from their Siberian homeland Nicolai Lilin is all too aware his time to uphold his ethnic t...
I myself came from a similar background as the author, born in a family of the people he calls ''blatnoy'', and I can tell that all of these rules and customs he writes about are true even if it's hard to believe for some people from western countries. But now the customs of ''blatnoy'' and siber...
Siberian Education is a memoir of a young criminal.Nikolaj grew up in Bender, Moldova, during the last years of the USSR and the first years after its collapse. That city featured several quarters run by criminal communities, the author's own being one consisting of Siberian expatriates, transpla...