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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)
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.
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.
Romanian mafia; Russian mafia; Serbian mafia; Soldiers of Odin – An anti-immigrant group with 8 chapters in Canada; Solntsevskaya Bratva; Black Shirts Gang (BSG)– London, Ontario based Neo-Nazi group [2] The Base – International Neo-Nazi white supremacist group; The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan – A branch of the KKK operating ...
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 ...
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.
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.