To most Russians, democracy and capitalism are euphemisms for a government-sanctioned, free-for-all robbery of the many by the few.
All robberies will be done over the Net".
Over all, robberies caused losses estimated at $532 billion in 2001, the report found.
In San Francisco last year, nearly half of all robberies involved a cellphone, up from 36 percent the year before; in Washington, cellphones were taken in 42 percent of robberies, a record.
Betting shops accounted for 70% of all robberies at commercial premises in London involving a firearm, being hit 167 times.
Non-Hispanic whites, on the other hand, committed 5 percent of the city's violent crimes in 2009, 1.4 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies.
About 113 smartphones are lost or stolen each minute in the United States and, according to the Federal Communications Commission, cellphone thefts account for 30 to 40 percent of all robberies nationwide.
Mr Justice Edmund Davies, who handed down 30 year terms to the robbers, stressed their "greed" – surely the sine qua non of all robberies.
The thefts have grown most rapidly in urban areas; cellphones are stolen in more than 40 percent of all robberies in New York City and 38 percent of robberies in the District of Columbia, according to the groups.
