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  2. Thief in law - Wikipedia

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    A thief in law (or thief with code, Russian: вор в зако́не, romanized: vor v zakone) in the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states, and their respective diasporas is a formal and special status of "criminal authority", a professional criminal who follows certain criminal traditions and enjoys an elite position among other members within organized crime and correctional facility ...

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time; Glossary of mathematical symbols; Japanese punctuation; Korean punctuation; Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used of the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th or (though not in English) 1º, 2º, 3º, 4º).

  4. Russian criminal tattoos - Wikipedia

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    In the 1930s, Russian criminal castes began to emerge, such as the Masti (suits) and the Vor v Zakone (rus. Вор в Законе) or Blatnye (authoritative thieves), and with that a tattoo culture to define rank and reputation. Up until World War II, any tattoo could denote a professional criminal, the only exception being tattoos on sailors.

  5. The Mark of Cain (2000 film) - Wikipedia

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    The now vanishing practice is seen as reflecting the transition of the broader Russian society. Filmed in some of Russia's most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of "The Zone" and "The Code of Thieves" (Vor v zakone).

  6. Russian mafia - Wikipedia

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    Today's Russian organized crime can be traced back to the Russian Empire, in the form of banditry and thievery, but it was not until after the establishment of the Soviet Union that certain vory v zakone (lit. ' thieves in law ') emerged as the leaders of prison groups throughout forced labour camps with a generally well-defined code of honour.

  7. Barons of Crime - Wikipedia

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    Barons of Crime (Russian: Воры в законе, romanized: Vory v zakone) is a 1988 Soviet crime thriller film directed by Yuri Kara [1] [2] [3] based on the stories of Fazil Iskander. [ 4 ] The film tells about the confrontation between two leaders of criminal gangs from one coastal city.

  8. Verb–object–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    Kaqchikel's basic structure is VOS, but the language allows for other word orders such as SVO. Since the language is head-marking, a sentence focuses on the subject that is before the verb. A sentence may be either VOS or VSO if switching the subject and the object semantically changes the meaning, but VOS is more common.

  9. The Secret Speech (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The person responsible is Anisya, the wife of a priest whom Leo arrested after infiltrating the Church seven years previously. In the time since being sent to a forced-labour camp, Anisya has risen through the ranks of the vory v zakone to the point where she commands an entire band of criminals. Now known as Fraera, she holds a particular ...