Sentence examples for mafia state from inspiring English sources

Putin's Russia looms, a mafia state built on chauvinism.

A number of commentators have dubbed Russia a "mafia state".

He made it an integral part of his Mafia state.

Dismantling the mafia state will not be easy.

They close their eyes to the mafia state within a state in Bulgaria," says Hinova.

Deeply interested, the Italians, familiar with both leftist terror and a mafia state, listened.

In the same article he claimed the region was known as "a mafia state".

They acknowledged the country was a mafia state, but detected countervailing tendencies.

Yet the outcome was not reform of the Christian Democrat Mafia state.

Inside the headline is "And the 2018 World Cup is awarded to... mafia state".

How the workings of Putin's mafia state can shed light on millions of leaked documents.