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During the 20th century in the Soviet Union, Russian criminal and prison communities maintained a culture of using tattoos to indicate members' criminal career and ranking. Specifically among those imprisoned under the Gulag system of the Soviet era, the tattoos served to differentiate a criminal leader or thief in law from a political prisoner ...
Russian organized crime has a rather large stronghold in the city of Atlanta where members are distinguished by their tattoos. Russian organized crime was reported to have a stronger grip in the French Riviera region and Spain in 2010; [6] and Russia was branded as a virtual "mafia state" according to the WikiLeaks cables. [44]
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 ...
Belarusian mobster who was involved in organized crime in America as well as Europe. Rachmiel Brandwain: Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian-German Jewish) Ukrainian mobster who was based in Antwerp. [1] Vladimir Reznikov: Russian: Member of the Russian mafia in the USA. Toomas Erm Wilson: Estonian: Konksu-Tom: Leader of Estonian Kemerovo crime ...
Two years ago, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department internal investigators learned about a group of Lakewood station deputies who shared a common tattoo of a spade, with the number 13.
The Georgian mafia (Georgian: ქართული მაფია, romanized: kartuli mapia) is an organized crime network in Europe, which has produced the largest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries and controls and regulates most of the Russian-speaking and fully controls Russia and Georgia mafia groups. [1]
American Traditional or Old School tattoos are powerful expressions of identity and heritage. Their timeless designs are steeped in history, capturing the essence of American culture since they ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI is concerned about the possibility of an organized attack in the United States similar to the one that killed scores of people at a Russian concert hall last month ...