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Brothers' Circle

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The Brothers' Circle or Bratski Krug (Братский круг) (formerly known as Family of Eleven and The Twenty) is the name given to an international criminal group involved in drugs trafficking. [1]

21 relations: Africa, Aslan Usoyan, Gafur Rakhimov, Georgian mafia, Grigory Leps, Kamchy Kolbayev, Latin America, Mark Galeotti, Middle East, Nizhny Novgorod, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Pravda.ru, Presidency of Barack Obama, Russian mafia, Russians, Thief in law, Transnational crime, United States, United States Department of the Treasury, Vladislav Leontyev, Zakhariy Kalashov.

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Aslan Usoyan

Aslan Ûsoyan (ასლან უსოიანი; Асла́н Раши́дович Усоя́н) (27 February 1937 – 16 January 2013), also known as Grandpa Hassan ("Дед Хасан" Ded Hasan) or just Grandpa ("Дедушка"), was a Russian mafia boss, an ethnic Kurdish Yazidi mobster and thief in law, who began his career operating in Georgia, continued in Moscow, Ural, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Krasnodar, Sochi, and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

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Gafur Rakhimov

Gafur-Arslanbek Akhmedovich Rakhimov (Гафур-Арсланбек Ахмедович Раги́мов) (born July 22, 1951) is an Uzbek businessman and sports administrator who is the Interim President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

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Georgian mafia

The Georgian mafia (ქართული მაფია) is regarded as one of the biggest, powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the biggest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries and controls and regulates most of the Russian-speaking mafia groups.

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Grigory Leps

Grigory Viktorovich Lepsveridze (Григо́рий Ви́кторович Лепсверидзе, გრიგორი ვიქტორის ძე ლეფსვერიძე), known as Grigory Leps (born 16 July 1962 in Sochi), is a Russian singer-songwriter of Georgian origin.

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Kamchy Kolbayev

Kamchy Asanbekovich Kolbayev is an alleged crime boss in Kyrgyzstan.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti is senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and coordinator of its Centre for European Security.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod (p), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is a city in Russia and the administrative center (capital) of Volga Federal District and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), founded in 2006, is a consortium of investigative centers, media and journalists operating in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Central America.

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Pravda.ru

Pravda.ru (lit) formerly Pravda Online, is a Russian internet news website established in 1999 and owned by Pravda.ru Holding headed by Vadim Gorshenin.

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Presidency of Barack Obama

The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as 44th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017.

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Russian mafia

Russian organized crime or Russian mafia, sometimes referred to as Bratva ("brotherhood"), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union.

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Russians

Russians (русские, russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. The majority of Russians inhabit the nation state of Russia, while notable minorities exist in other former Soviet states such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic states. A large Russian diaspora also exists all over the world, with notable numbers in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Canada. Russians are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe. The Russians share many cultural traits with their fellow East Slavic counterparts, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians. They are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion. The Russian language is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and also spoken as a secondary language in many former Soviet states.

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Thief in law

A thief in law (r; Estonian: seaduslik varas; злодій у законі, zlodiy u zakoni; злодзей у законе, zlodzey u zakone; კანონიერი ქურდი, kanonieri kurdi; օրենքով գող, orenk'ov goğ; Qanuni oğru) in the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states, Serbia and respective diasporas abroad is a specifically granted formal status of a professional criminal who enjoys an elite position within the organized crime environment and employs informal authority over its lower-status members.

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Transnational crime

Transnational crimes are crimes that have actual or potential effect across national borders and crimes that are intrastate but offend fundamental values of the international community.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.

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Vladislav Leontyev

Vladislav Vladimirovich Leontyev (born July 5, 1971 in Gorky) Malta Financial Services Authority is a Russian gangster linked to drug trafficking, embezzlement, fraud, extortion and car theft.

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Zakhariy Kalashov

Zakhariy Knyazevich Kalashov (Заха́рий Кня́зевич Калашо́в; born 20 May 1953), nicknamed "Young Shakro" (Шакро Молодой), is a Russian mafia boss, notorious gangster and thief in law, who is widely believed to be one of the most prominent members of the Russian mafias.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers'_Circle

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