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In return, the Russian mafia paid the Camorra with property (including a Russian bank) and firearms, smuggled into Eastern Europe and Italy. [ 26 ] A report by the United Nations in 1995 placed the number of individuals involved in organized crime in Russia at 3 million, employed in about 5,700 gangs.
Russian: Max: FSB agent turned gang leader, accused of being involved in the Russian apartment bombings: Marat Balagula: Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) Was a powerful Ukrainian gangster in the USA. Evsei Agron: Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian Jewish) One of the first Russian gangsters to establish a powerful gang in the USA, thief in law. Ludwig ...
The term Russian Mafia, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this ...
The Brothers' Circle or Bratski Krug (Russian: Братский круг) is a term used to refer to Russian organized crime, commonly the Russian mafia.It is a loose translation of the Russian term "Bratva" (Russian: Братва), which can also be loosely translated as “brotherhood” or “band of brothers".
The Solntsevskaya gang was founded in the late 1980s by Sergei Mikhailov, a former waiter who had served a prison term for fraud.Based in the Solntsevo District of Moscow, the gang recruited local unemployed, aggressive young men as foot soldiers and also made use of thief in law Dzhemal Khachidze to enhance their reputation amongst established criminals.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIt was a cold winter morning in Moscow in the late 2000s. At the southern end of the Slavyanskaya Square, in front of the giant ...
Russian crime bosses (13 P) C. ... Murdered Russian gangsters (8 P) Pages in category "Russian gangsters" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The movie, opening Thursday, is the culmination of five years of perfecting and four years of pitching the story of how he robbed his classmates on a train in Russia with help from the Russian mob.