Talk:Koshka Brotherhood/@comment-1854917-20130718163029

Actually, Post-Soviet organized crime groups are more or less chaotic and have no such position as "Don" in Italian-type mafias. Use of Russian language for naming the organisation, though is not a mistake - dexpite primarily located in Ukraine, mostly members of the organisation were born and, likely, first incarcerated in USSR. Those making them "vory v zakone" (translated "thiefs in the law") - a specific kind of criminals, which formed in USSR in the 1920's and whose members has their own "laws" - "ponyatiya" (translated roughly as "undrestandings") - something similar to medieval knight rules but more chaotic, cynical and law-opposed. How such groups are working was shown more or less correct in the movie "Eastern Promises" by David Cronenberg. Actually, Russian and Ukrainian Mafia can even hardly be divided into individual groups and mostly appears to be controlled by a kind of councils. I'm not an expert in such things, thanks God, but still, I think I needed to share this few thoughts.