Russian mafia

The Russian Mafia (Russian: русская мафия; russkaya mafiya) or Bratva (brothers, brotherhood), is a term used to refer to the collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. Although not a singular criminal organization, most of the individual groups share similar goals and organizational structures that define them as part of the loose overall association.

Organized crime in Russia began in the imperial period of the Tsars, but it was not until the Soviet era that vory v zakone ("thieves-in-law") emerged as leaders of prison groups in gulags (Soviet prison labor camps), and their honor code became more defined. After World War II, the death of Joseph Stalin, and the fall of the Soviet Union, more gangs emerged in a flourishing black market, exploiting the unstable governments of the former Republics, and at its highest point, even controlling as much as two-thirds of the Russian economy. Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, once said that the Russian mafia posed the greatest threat to U.S. national security in the mid-1990s.

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Lohud 21 Mar 2025
Armed man arrested near Brooklyn home of Iranian journalist. July 28, 2022 ... Attorney's Office, Amirov, of Iran, and Omarov, of Georgia, were members of the Azeri faction of the Russian mob and were promised $500,000 to kill Alinejad ... U.S ... 17.

Jury convicts 2 men of plotting to assassinate an Iranian American journalist in New York

The Los Angeles Times 21 Mar 2025
Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were crime bosses in the Russian mob ... Khalid Mehdiyev, a former member of the Russian mob who lived in Yonkers and worked at a pizzeria, testified that he was hired as the hitman.

2 Men Convicted In New York For Plotting To Kill Iranian Dissident Journalist

Radio Free Europe 21 Mar 2025
Two men identified by prosecutors as members of the Russian mob have been convicted in New York City for plotting to kill Iranian-American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad in a murder-for-hire scheme financed by Iran's government.

Mobster duo found guilty of hiring bungling ‘pizza delivery hitman’ in botched hit on Iranian ...

New York Post 21 Mar 2025
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Two men convicted of murder-for-hire plot against Iranian American journalist in New York

The Observer 20 Mar 2025
Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were crime bosses in the Russian mob ... Khalid Mehdiyev, a former member of the Russian mob who lived in Yonkers and worked at a pizzeria, testified that he was hired as the hitman.

Prosecutor says Iran put bounty on head of Masih Alinejad

The New Arab 20 Mar 2025
He said two high-level members of the Russian mob - Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov - were paid by the government of Iran to organize a plot to kill Alinejad in 2022.

Prosecutor says at trial that Iran put $500,000 bounty on head of Iranian-American journalist

CNN 20 Mar 2025
He said two high-level members of the Russian mob — Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov — were paid by the government of Iran to organize a plot to kill Alinejad in 2022.

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad set to testify at trial of men accused of plotting to ...

Beaumont Enterprise 18 Mar 2025
Khalid Mehdiyev, a government witness who says he worked for the Russian mob, was arrested after his car was stopped near ...

Masih Alinejad to testify at trial of alleged assassination plot

The New Arab 18 Mar 2025
Khalid Mehdiyev, a government witness who says he worked for the Russian mob before and after he came to the US from Azerbaijan, was arrested after his car was stopped near Alinejad's Brooklyn home for rolling past a stop sign ... ....

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad testifies at trial of men accused of plotting to kill her

Toronto Sun 18 Mar 2025
Story continues below ... SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES ... U.S ... Alinejad’s testimony came a week after a former member of the Russian mob testified that he took photographs and videos outside her Brooklyn home after he was hired to assassinate her ... .

Fact-Checking Europa: The Last Battle | Part One, by Keith Woods

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The Star - Shelby 13 Mar 2025
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Bumbling hitman botched murder of Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad in NY: ‘I was trying to ...

New York Post 13 Mar 2025
Jurors in Manhattan federal court heard Wednesday how Khalid Mehdiyev — a 27-year-old self-professed member of the Russian mob — inevitably tipped off his target, activist Masih Alinejad, ...
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