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...Mafia]] and the [[Bulgarian mafia]]. There are also a number of localized mafia organizations around the world bearing no link to any specific ethnic backg ...lity are structurally similar to classic organized crime groups like the [[Mafia]]. In the modern world, it is difficult to distinguish some corrupt and law

...ref name="Schwirtz">{{cite news |title=Vory v Zakone has hallowed place in Russian criminal lore.|author=Michael Schwirtz |work=[[International Herald Tribune ...with its own slang, culture and laws became known as ''Vorovskoy Mir'' in Russian (i.e. воровской мир) or "Thieves World" (World of Thieves).

* [[American Mafia]] * [[Dixie Mafia]]

...ut a unified image of what this organization was. It made al-Qaeda the new Mafia or the new Communists. It made them identifiable as a group and therefore m ...d [[Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi]]'s Harkat i Inqilabi group at the time of the Russian invasion. This group also enjoyed the loyalty of most Afghan Arab fighters.

...te almost every part of Italian society <ref name="gomorra"/>. The Italian mafia is often thought of as being the archtype for organized crime worldwide. *[[Sicilian Mafia]]<ref name="traffic"/><ref name="mcmafia"/><ref name="gomorra"/><ref name="

==Russian Bratva structure== ...nd Shestyorkas. There are four Brigadiers running criminal activity in the Russian Bratva.

...German intelligence in World War II, is best known as having been the only Russian intelligence training school to operate outside the Soviet Union. Its promi ...cutor Amarando Spataro, known for his aggressive investigations of leading Mafia figures, said the abduction was illegal because it violated Italian soverei