Russian Mafia By Emer Hehir

Russian Mafia

• There are hundreds of organised crime groups

in Russia.
• The most famous in the media are Solntsevskaya
Bratva, Bratskii Krug, Tambovskaya Prestupnaya
Grupirovka, Chechen mafia and a few more.
• Each group operate in a different way.
• Many groups have up to 9,000 members
 History

The Russian mafia can be traced back to the 1700s, in the form of
banditry and thievery. Most of the population were peasents in
poverty, and criminals who stole from the government and divided
profits among the people earned high status, being viewed as
protectors of the poor and became hero's.
Over time, these criminals grouped and started their own code of
conduct that was based on strict loyalty with one another and
opposition against the government. When a revolution came around
in 1917, Mafia's were alive and active. Vladimir Lenin attempted to
stop them, but failed, and the criminals survived into Stalin's reign.
During Stalin's reign, over 8 million members of the mafias were
imprisoned in gulags and released at his death. This sudden release
spiked the organised crime in Russia, spreading toward Western-
Europe, and even up to the highest political parties in Russia.
The Mafia in Pop Culture
The Russian Mafia has been interpreted in
many different ways.
For example :
• Films including Bad Boys 2, Batman:
Gotham Knight, and The Equalizer.
• TV including Orange is the New Black, Oz, and Persons
of Interest.
• Video Games including Grand Theft Auto, SWAT 4, and
Watch Dogs.
• Comics including Hawkeye, Spider-Man, and The Winter
Men.
Solntsevskaya
Bratva
• Solntsevskaya Bratva,
often referred as Bratva, is
an organised crime
group.
• This group is one of the
largest organised
crime group. It has a
revenue of over $8.5
billion.
 Tambovskaya
Prestupnaya Grupirovka
• Formed in St Petersburg in the late 1980s by Vladimir
Barsukov, also known as Vladimir Sergeevich Kumarin.
• The group expanded from its original protection
operations to comprising criminal operations including
fire arms trafficking, drugs trafficking and cybercrime.
• In the 1990s, Barsukov expanded the group to obtain
legitimate businesses, branching out into banking,
timber trade and computers.
• . In 1994, then St Petersburg municipal official Vladimir
Putin, now Russian president, awarded Tambovskaya
Company PTK the right to supply gasoline to the entire
city.
• The group continues to dominate organised crime in
the St Petersburg area.