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  2. Brothers' Circle - Wikipedia

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    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".

  3. Russian mafia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Solntsevskaya Bratva - Wikipedia

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    The Solntsevskaya Bratva has a recurring role in the CW TV series Arrow. Oliver Queen has contacts in the organization who he uses to locate criminals. In Arrow, the leader of Solntsevskaya Bratva in the Arrowverse is Anatoly Knyazev (a.k.a. KGBeast), one of the biggest supervillains in Arrowverse and the DC Universe (played by David Nykl).

  5. Blatnaya pesnya - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. List of post-Soviet gangsters - Wikipedia

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    Russian: Mikhas: The leader of the Solntsevskaya bratva: Semyon Mogilevich: Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) Uncle Seva, the Brainy Don: Ukrainian mobster who is regarded as one of the most powerful gangsters from the former Soviet Union. Vladimir Kumarin: Russian: Boss of the Tambov gang: Vyacheslav Ivankov: Russian: Yaponchik (the Japanese)

  7. Orekhovskaya gang - Wikipedia

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    In 1989 the gang merged with the Solntsevskaya bratva to combat the growing threat of Chechen mafia gangs. However, by 1997 the alliance had split and Todorov was again running an independent gang. [1] The gang also acquired a reputation of disregarding codes of conduct in the criminal underworld, starting and ending conflicts as they pleased.

  8. Tambovskaya Bratva - Wikipedia

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    Kinichi Kamiyasu met Gennady Petrov (Russian: Геннадий Васильевич Петров) and Kuzmin in December 1990 when Manvel Davidov through his father Temo Davidov, a member of the Chechen mafia which had caused Manvel to flee the Soviet Union for Stockholm where Kinichi Kamiyasu gave him a job and a Polish passport, introduced ...

  9. Russian chanson - Wikipedia

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    Russian chanson (Russian: русский шансон, romanized: russkiy shanson; from French "chanson") is a neologism for a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs, including city romance songs, author song performed by singer-songwriters, and blatnaya pesnya or "criminals' songs" that are based on the themes of the urban underclass and the criminal underworld.