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Blatnaya pesnya (Russian: блатная песня, IPA: [blɐtˈnajə ˈpʲesʲnʲə], "criminals' song") or blatnyak (Russian: блатняк, IPA: [blɐtʲˈnʲak]) is a genre of Russian song characterized by depictions of criminal subculture and the urban underworld which are often romanticized and have criminally-perverted humor in nature.
The Chechen mafia is one of the largest ethnic organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia groups. The Georgian mafia is regarded as one of the biggest, powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the biggest number of thieves in law in all former USSR countries.
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 ...
Brigada (Russian: Бригада), also known as Law of the Lawless, is a Russian 15-episode crime television miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular in Russia and ex-Soviet countries as well as Eastern Europe, but received criticism for positive portrayal of criminals and aestheticization of violence.
Eastern Promises is a 2007 British-Canadian gangster film directed by David Cronenberg from a screenplay by Steven Knight.The film tells the story of Anna (Naomi Watts), a Russian-British midwife who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year-old trafficked Ukrainian girl who dies in childbirth.
In 1993 the group got into conflict with other russian gangs and killed mobster Viktor Kogan, who was moving in on their territory. [citation needed] On September 13, 1994, the gang split into around a dozen warring factions. These all gradually faded away over time and what was left of the gang was swallowed up by the Solntsevskaya Bratva.
Vladimir Reznikov was a Russian American gangster. After attempting to retrieve money owed to him for a fraudulent gas license provided by Marat Balagula, for whom he sold bootlegged gasoline in a western New York gas station, among many other enterprises, Reznikov was shot dead by the Lucchese crime family, to whom Balagula was paying street tax.
Boris Mikhailovich Nayfeld was born in Gomel on October 4, 1947, to Mikhail and Ekaterina Nayfeld. His father was Jewish while his mother was Russian Orthodox.He and his older brother, Gennady, were raised in a Jewish household by their paternal grandparents, Yosef and Riva after Nayfeld's father was jailed in a gulag and his mother subsequently abandoned the family.