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/^t/Dealing with the issue of the increase of violence in Polish society, sociologists have found another significant explanation of the recent situation. Namely, they have observed that this phenomenon is also related to the influx of people from the former Soviet Union and Romania. A telling number of crimes has been lately committed either by Russians or Romanians. Russians are to blame for smuggling of weapon, drugs, gold and many stolen goods to or through Poland, whereas Romanians are responsible mostly for robberies and assaults. The "Russian" problem is extremely serious, since it also involves contacts of Russians with Polish mafias, gangs and individual criminals. This is one of the reasons why Russians are involved in the majority of crimes committed in Poland in recent years. Interestingly enough, many criminal cases presented on Polish television in programmes like "Cops" or "997" have something in common mostly with Russian but also with Romanian people.