Roushie mafia

Roushie Mafia

Foondin location	Roushie / Umwhile Soviet Union
Territory	Internaitional, stranghaulds in umwhile Soviet states an extensive operations in Israel an the Unitit States
Ethnicity	Primarily Roushies, Roushie Jews, Ukrainians, Ukrainian Jews, Abkhazians, Adjarians, AAzerbaijanis, Armenies, Assiries, Belaroushie Jews, Chechens, Dagestanis, Estonies, Georgies, Georgie Jews, Ingusheties, Kyrgyzstanis, Lithuanies, Osseties, Pontic Greeks, Roushie Romanis, Tajiks, Volga Germans, Uzbeks, Uyghurs, Yezidis
Creeminal activities	Money launderin, extortion, airms trokin, cybercreeme, human trokin, prostitution, drog trokin, arson, coonterfeitin, extortion, fraud, an larceny

The Roushie mafia (Roushie: русская мафия, russkaya mafiya) is a term uised tae refer tae the collective o various organisit creeme syndicates oreeginatin in the umwhile Soviet Union. Awtho no a singular creeminal organisation, maist o the individual groups, kent as Bratva ("britherhuid") or Vorovskoy mir ("thief in law, warld"), share seemilar goals an organisational structurs that define them as pairt o the loose oweraw association.

Structur an composition

"They're not carefully structured Cosa Nostra-type families... They're loose structures of networks, but they draw on people from a number of different areas."

— James Finckenauer, author o Russian Mafia In America

Awtho maist Roushie creeminal groups vary in thair structur, thare hae been attempts at tryin tae figur oot a model in hou thay wirk. Ane sic model, which coud be possibly oot-datit structur, as it is based on the auld style o Soviet creeminal enterprises, wirks oot lik the follaein:

1. Elite group: the leadership, aftentimes a vor or vory, manages an organises plans for operations.
2. Support group: thay set specific tasks for subordinate groups or chuise who daes wha task.
3. Security group: thay are in chairge wi security an intelligence.
4. Wirkin group: the individuals that actually cairy oot the creemes; thay are aften uninformit o the identity o the leadership.

Notable individual groups

• The Solntsevskaya Bratva: Led bi Sergei "Mikhas" Mikhailov, it is Roushie's lairgest creeminal group wi aboot 5,000 memmers, an is namit efter the Solntsevo destrict.
• The Dolgopruadnanskaya gang: Roushie's seicont lairgest creeminal group.
• The Izmaylovskaya gang: Ane o Rosuhie's auldest modren gangs, it wis stairtit in the mid- tae late-1980s bi Oleg Ivanov; it haes aroond 200–500 memmers in Moscow alane, an is namit efter the Izmaylovo Destrict.
• The Tambov gang: Namit efter Tambov Oblast, this group haes been kent tae dominate Saunt Petersburg; the man maist associatit wi them is Vladimir Kumarin.
• The Orekhovskaya Gang: Foondit bi Segei "Sylvester" Timofeyev, this group reached its hicht in Moscow in the 1990s. When Timofeyev dee'd, Sergei Butorin teuk his place. Housomeivver, he wis sentencit tae jyle for life in 2011.
• The Odessa Mafia: The maist prominent an dominant Roushie creeminal group operatin in the US; its heidquairter is in Brighton Beach.
• The Brithers' Circle: Heidit bi Temuri Mirzoyev, this multi-ethnic transnaitional group is "composed o leaders an senior memmers o several Eurasie creeminal groups lairgely based in kintras o the umwhile Soviet Union but operatin in Europe, the Middle East, Africae, an Laitin Americae." In 2011, US Preses Barack Obama an his admeenistration namit it ane o fower transnaitional organisit creeme groups that posed the greatest threat tae US naitional security, an sanctioned certaint key memmers an froze thair assets. A year later, he extendit the naitional emergency against them for anither year.
• The Semion Mogilevich Organisation: Based in Budapest, Hungary an heidit bi the creeme boss o the same name, this group nummers approximately 250 members as o 1996. Its business is aften tee'd wi that o the Solntsevskaya Bratva an the Vyacheslav Ivankov Organisation. Aleksey Anatolyevich Lugovcov is the seicont-in-command, an Vitaly Borisovich Savalovsky is the "unnerboss" tae Mogilevich.
• The Uralmash gang o Yekaterinburg.
• The Mkhedrioni wis a paramilitar group involvit in organisit creeme led bi thief-in-law Jaba Ioseliani in 1990s Georgie.
• Armenian Power, or AP-13, is a Californie based creeme syndicate tee'd tae Roushie an Armenie organisit creeme.
• The ceety o Kazan wis kent for its gang cultur, which later progressed intae mair organisit, mafia-esque groups. This wis kent as the Kazan phenomenon.