Editing Russian Mafia (section)

==Notable individual groups==
*The [[Solntsevskaya Bratva]]: Led by [[Sergei "Mikhas" Mikhailov]], it is Russia's largest criminal group with about 5,000 members, and is named after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solntsevo_District Solntsevo district].
*The [[Lyuberetskaja Bratva]] (russ.: Люберецкая Братва) or Ljubery (russ.: Люберы): One of the largest criminal groups in late 80-s early-mid 90-s in the USSR. Based in (and originating from) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubertsy Lyubertsy] district of Moscow.
*The [[Dolgoprudninskaya]] gang: Russia's second largest criminal group. Origanally from the City of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolgoprudny Dolgoprudny].
*The ''[[Izmaylovskaya]]'' gang: One of Russia's oldest modern gangs, it was started in the mid- to late-1980s by Oleg Ivanov; it has around 200–500 members in Moscow alone, and is namafter the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmaylovo_District Izmaylovo District].
*The [[Tambov gang]]: Named after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambov_Oblast Tambov Oblast], this group has been known to dominate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg Saint Petersburg]; the man most associated with them is Vladimir Kumarin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-unreported_cases_35-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia#cite_note-unreported_cases-35 [35]]</sup>
*The [[Orekhovskaya Gan]]g: Founded by Segei "Sylvester" Timofeyev, this group reached its height in Moscow in the 1990s. When Timofeyev died, Sergei Butorin took his place. However, he was sentenced to jail for life in 2011.
*The [[Odessa Mafia]]: The most prominent and dominant Russian criminal group operating in the US; its headquarter is in Brighton Beach.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mallory_3-5">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia#cite_note-Mallory-3 [3]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fas.org_38-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia#cite_note-fas.org-38 [38]]</sup>
*The [[Spetsialnoye Nazranie Bratva]] of Eastern Europe and West Asia, was founded in 1974, and means troops of special purpose in English, and have its origin from the army all the way back to KGB. Is Russia's one of the largest organisations today, with Branches in all the former Soviet states: Middle East, USA, Western Europe, Asia and Australia.
*The [[Brothers' Circle]]: Headed by Temuri Mirzoyev, this multi-ethnic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_crime transnational] group is "composed of leaders and senior members of several Eurasian criminal groups largely based in countries of the former Soviet Union but operating in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-treasury_39-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia#cite_note-treasury-39 [39]]</sup> In 2011, US President [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama Barack Obama] and his administration named it one of four transnational organized crime groups that posed the greatest threat to US national security, and sanctioned certain key members and froze their assets. A year later, he extended the national emergency against them for another year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-extend_sanctions_42-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia#cite_note-extend_sanctions-42 [42]]</sup>
*The [[Semion Mogilevich]] Organization: Based in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest Budapest], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary Hungary] and headed by the crime boss of the same name, this group numbers approximately 250 members as of 1996. Its business is often tied with that of the ''Solntsevskaya Bratva'' and the Vyacheslav Ivankov Organization. [[Aleksey Anatolyevich Lugovcov]] is the second-in-command, and [[Vitaly Borisovich Savalovsky]] is the "underboss" to Mogilevich.
*The [[Uralmash]] gang of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg].
*The [[Mkhedrioni]] was a paramilitary group involved in organised crime led by thief-in-law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaba_Ioseliani Jaba Ioseliani] in 1990s Georgia.
*[[Armenian Power]], or AP-13, is a California based crime syndicate tied to Russian and Armenian organized crime.
*The city of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan Kazan] was known for its gang culture, which later progressed into more organized, mafia-esque groups. This was known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan_phenomenon Kazan phenomenon].
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