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{{Infobox Creeminal organization
| name                = Roushie Mafia 
| founded  VZCD          =
| founding location   = [[Roushie]] / Umwhile [[Soviet Union]]
| ethnic makeup = Primarily [[Roushies]], [[Roushie Jews]], [[Ukrainians]], [[Ukrainian Jews]], [[Abkhazians]], [[Adjarians]], [[AAzerbaijanis]], [[Armenies]], [[Assirie fowk|Assiries]], [[Belaroushie Jews]], [[Chechens]], [[Avar fowk|Dagestanis]], [[Estonies]], [[Georgie fowk|Georgies]], [[Georgie Jews]], [[Ingush fowk|Ingusheties]], [[Kyrgyz fowk|Kyrgyzstanis]], [[Lithuanies]], [[Osseties]], [[Pontic Greeks]], [[Ruska Roma|Roushie Romanis]], [[Tajiks]], [[Volga Germans]], [[Uzbeks]], [[Uyghurs]], [[Yezidis]]<ref>http://archive.is/20120708025253/findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2194/is_5_69/ai_63016002/</ref>
| membership & association = 300,000 estimated worldwide<ref>http://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2010/03/russian-mafia-expands-to-300000-members.html</ref>
| territory           = Internaitional, stranghaulds in umwhile Soviet states an extensive operations in Israel an the Unitit States 
| criminal activities = [[Money launderin]], [[extortion]], [[airms trokin]], [[cybercreeme]], [[human trokin]], [[prostitution]], [[drog trokin]], [[arson]], [[coonterfeitin]], [[extortion]], [[fraud]], an [[larceny]] }}

The '''Roushie mafia''' ({{Lang-ru|русская мафия}}, ''russkaya mafiya'') is a term uised tae refer tae the [[collective]] o various organisit [[creeme syndicates]] oreeginatin in the [[Republics o the Soviet Union|umwhile Soviet Union]]. Awtho no a singular creeminal organisation, maist o the individual groups, kent as '''''Bratva''''' ("britherhuid") or '''''Vorovskoy mir''''' ("thief in law, warld"),<ref name="tvtropes"/> share seemilar goals an organisational structurs that define them as pairt o the loose oweraw association.

==Structur an composition==
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|style="text-align: left;"|"They're not carefully structured ''[[Cosa Nostra]]''-type families... They're loose structures of networks, but they draw on people from a number of different areas."
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|style="text-align: right;"|&nbsp;— James Finckenauer, author o ''Russian Mafia In America''<ref name="history channel"/>
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Awtho maist Roushie creeminal groups vary in thair structur, thare hae been attempts at tryin tae figur oot a model in hou thay wirk. Ane sic model, which coud be possibly oot-datit structur, as it is based on the auld style o Soviet creeminal enterprises, wirks oot lik the follaein:

# Elite group: the leadership, aftentimes a ''vor'' or ''vory'', manages an organises plans for operations.
# Support group: thay set specific tasks for subordinate groups or chuise who daes wha task.
# Security group: thay are in chairge wi security an intelligence.
# Wirkin group: the individuals that actually cairy oot the creemes; thay are aften uninformit o the identity o the leadership.

==Notable individual groups==
* The ''[[Solntsevskaya Bratva]]'': Led bi [[Sergei Anatolyev Mikhailov|Sergei "Mikhas" Mikhailov]], it is Roushie's lairgest creeminal group wi aboot 5,000 memmers, an is namit efter the [[Solntsevo Destrict|Solntsevo destrict]].<ref name="focus features"/><ref name="BBC rise"/>
* The ''Dolgopruadnanskaya'' gang: Roushie's seicont lairgest creeminal group.<ref name="BBC rise"/>
* The ''Izmaylovskaya'' gang: Ane o Rosuhie's auldest modren gangs, it wis stairtit in the mid- tae late-1980s bi Oleg Ivanov; it haes aroond 200–500 memmers in Moscow alane, an is namit efter the [[Izmaylovo Destrict]].<ref name="unreported cases"/>
* The [[Tambov Gang|''Tambov'' gang]]: Namit efter [[Tambov Oblast]], this group haes been kent tae dominate [[Saunt Petersburg]]; the man maist associatit wi them is Vladimir Kumarin.<ref name="unreported cases"/>
* The [[Orekhovskaya gang|''Orekhovskaya'' Gang]]: Foondit bi Segei "Sylvester" Timofeyev, this group reached its hicht in Moscow in the 1990s. When Timofeyev dee'd, Sergei Butorin teuk his place. Housomeivver, he wis sentencit tae jyle for life in 2011.<ref name="ITAR-TASS"/><ref name="kyivpost"/>
* The Odessa Mafia: The maist prominent an dominant Roushie creeminal group operatin in the US; its heidquairter is in Brighton Beach.<ref name="Mallory"/><ref name="fas.org"/>
* The [[Brithers' Circle]]: Heidit bi Temuri Mirzoyev, this multi-ethnic [[Transnaitional organisit creeme|transnaitional]] group is "composed o leaders an senior memmers o several Eurasie creeminal groups lairgely based in kintras o the umwhile Soviet Union but operatin in Europe, the Middle East, Africae, an Laitin Americae."<ref name="treasury"/> In 2011, US Preses [[Barack Obama]] an his admeenistration namit it ane o fower transnaitional organisit creeme groups that posed the greatest threat tae US naitional security, an sanctioned certaint key memmers an froze thair assets.<ref name="hetq.am"/><ref name="most powerful"/> A year later, he extendit the naitional emergency against them for anither year.<ref name="extend sanctions"/>
* The [[Semion Mogilevich]] Organisation: Based in [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] an heidit bi the creeme boss o the same name, this group nummers approximately 250 members as o 1996. Its business is aften tee'd wi that o the ''Solntsevskaya Bratva'' an the Vyacheslav Ivankov Organisation. Aleksey Anatolyevich Lugovcov is the seicont-in-command, an Vitaly Borisovich Savalovsky is the "unnerboss" tae Mogilevich.<ref name="Mogilevich Organization"/>
* The [[Uralmash gang]] o [[Yekaterinburg]].
* The [[Mkhedrioni]] wis a paramilitar group involvit in organisit creeme led bi thief-in-law [[Jaba Ioseliani]] in 1990s Georgie.
* [[Armenian Power]], or AP-13, is a Californie based creeme syndicate tee'd tae Roushie an Armenie organisit creeme.
* The ceety o [[Kazan]] wis kent for its gang cultur, which later progressed intae mair organisit, mafia-esque groups. This wis kent as the [[Kazan phenomenon]].

==References==
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==Freemit airtins==

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