Russian Krysha Roof

Originating from criminal and law enforcement jargon the term krysha from the russian крышa krysha literally meaning roof is now broadly used to refer to individuals or organisations that provide a range of services predominantly illicit and informal ranging from protection and patronage to the enforcement of contracts and settlement of disputes.

Russian krysha roof. Protection from the elements yes but also from the organized criminals who flourished as the. Matryoshka kolhkoz sputnik perestroika all of these original and untranslatable words have been borrowed in other languages from russian at one time in history or another. One of the most prominent terms of the new russian criminal jargon is krysha which literally means roof throughout the cold war soviet intelligence services used this term to refer to a cover. Known in russian as krysha or a roof the term in its present meaning did not exist in the ussr for the simple reason that there was no need for non state private protection at that time in the country.

Continuity in russian corruption through changing societal forms. Among these phrases the most popular is krysha best translated into english as roof this term has become widespread in russia in the last year and hardly an issue of a russian newspaper. Russian words for roof include крыша кровля потолок кров кровельный материал покрывать крыть крышу империал служить крышей and настилать крышу. The concept of krysha a russian criminal slang term meaning roof or in other words protection was a widespread phenomenon in the 1990s russian privatization process.