After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, new cultural and economic practices emerged out of the fragments of the collapsed state. Exploring economic activities in the Russian Far East, this book focuses on new informal economic practices and non-regulated commercial organizations, and it seeks to understand the emerging roles of entrepreneurs, organized crime, and the state in post- Soviet Russia. Based on anthropological fieldwork in the Russian Far East, especially in the port city of Vladivostok, the book focuses on the large open-air markets, the so-called shuttle traders that cross the...