- In Early 1993 Russian Ministry Affairs reported over 5,000 organized crime groups in Russia
- About 100,000 members in total with 18,0000 leaders
- The organized crime groups in Russia aren't nearly as organized as the ones in the U.S.
- Each boss is called a pakhan
- Brigadier controls 4 criminal cells through an intermediary
- The boss hires 2 spies that watch what they Brigadier does to make sure he does not get too powerful and to make sure they are loyal
- If any of the are broken the one who broke it is punishable ti death
- Law enforcement in former Soviet Union say organized crime groups are well up to date with technology transportation weapons and finances
- The Russian Mafia can be traces back to Russia's impearl period which began in the 1700's
- Most members were peasants living in poverty
- During Stalin's region as ruler millions of criminals expressed themselves through complicated tattoos till this day
- The prison officials approved the violence, inside the jail seeing it was a way to get rid of the prisons of criminals
- After Stalin died about eight million prisoners were set free from gulags (Soviet labor camps)
- During the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. expanded its immigration laws permitting Soviet Jews and criminals to enter the country, with most settling in a southern Brooklyn area also known as Brighton Beach Here is where Russian organized crime began in the US.[