Russian Mafia Background:


Russian organized crime or Russian mafia (Russian: росси́йская ма́фия, tr. rossíyskaya máfiya, IPA: [​rɐˈsʲijskəjə ˈmafʲɪjə], Russian: ру́сская ма́фия, tr. rússkaya máfiya, IPA: [ˈruskəjə ˈmafʲɪjə]), otherwise known as Bratva (Russian: братва́, tr. bratvá, IPA: [​brɐtˈva], lit. 'brotherhood'), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. The acronym OPG is Organized Criminal (Prestupnaya in Russian) Group, used to refer to any of the Russian mafia groups, sometimes modified with a specific name, e.g. Orekhovskaya OPG. Sometimes the initialism is translated and OCG is used.

Organized crime in Russia began in the Russian Empires, but it was not until the Soviet era that vory v zakone ("thieves-in-law") emerged as leaders of prison groups in forced labor camps, and their honor code became more defined. With the end of 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. Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, said that the Russian mafia posed the greatest threat to U.S. national security in the mid-1990s.

In 2012, there were as many as 6,000 groups, with more than 200 of them having a global reach. Criminals of these various groups are either former prison members, corrupt officials and business leaders, people with ethnic ties, or people from the same region with shared criminal experiences and leaders.In December 2009, Timur Lakhonin, the head of the Russian National Central Bureau of Interpol, stated "Certainly, there is crime involving our former compatriots abroad, but there is no data suggesting that an organized structure of criminal groups comprising former Russians exists abroad", while in August 2010, Alain Bauer, a French criminologist, said that it "is one of the best structured criminal organizations in Europe, with a quasi-military operation."

The Russian mafia is similar to the Italian Mafia in many ways, the groups' organization and structure follow a similar model. The two groups also share a similar portfolio of criminal activity. The highly publicized Italian Mafia is believed to have inspired early criminal groups in Russia to form Mafia-like organizations, eventually spawning their own version. The Russian mafia, however, differed from the Italians due to their environment. The level of political corruption and arms sales in a post-Soviet Russia allowed for massive expansion and incorporation of many government officials into the crime syndicates. The Russians also dabbled in uranium trading, stolen from the Soviet nuclear program, and human trafficking.




Семья Петровичей (Petrovich Family) background:

The Petrovich Crime Family was founded in the 1960s as one of the first crime familys, they have connections with the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) since the 50s to queel against rebellions on the soviet sattlelite states and track down criminal & high-value targets inside Soviet territory, during the 80s with the weakening KGB, the Petroviski's began working with other Mafias groups in russia to ensure more control over the many poor states in russia, with the end of Soviet-Union in 1991, the Petrovich family began growing their influence and control over the economy and ensure that the Soviet state still have money for it's admnistation, in the 2000s with the arrival of Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin on power, Putin began working with the Petrovich to now track down and eleminate politcal enemys with even member's of the family working in the Chechen Wars & Georgia Wars, with the rise of Dimitri Medvevc he began working in tracking down and eleminate the family, with the hunt of the Petrovichi Family, they began sabotaging and fighting against the FSB RF (Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii) and Russian Police, with originate "The Street Wars", it finally ended with the arrive of Putin where he given back the Petrovich family it's power and the authorization to track down and kill Medvevc.
Those relations quickly changed when Vladimir Putin start he's "Special Military Operation" at Ukraine and with the Economic Sanctions, the Petrovich Family werent happy knowing about how the situation Ukraine is going on, they began demanding the war end, Putin fearing the Petrovich Family, he sent the FSB RF and GRU to track down it's leaders and eleminate them, when the Petrovich family found out about that, they imemdiatly declared war against putin, creating "The Second Street Wars".


Equipment:
Due to their nature, the Petrovich would wear civilian clothing with a mix of military uniforms, their standard issue uniform is always a Yellow Telnyaskha and some form of Web-gear & glasses.
Their weapons consists mainly of Soviet & early Russian weapons, mainly the PM Makarov, APS, MP-443 Grach, AKS-74U, AK-74m, ASM AS-VAL, SVDM, Mosin-Nagant, PPSh-41, TT-34, VSS Vintorez, SV-98, RPK-74, PP-2000, PP-19 Bizon, OTs-14 Groza, SR-2 Veresk, Mossberg 500, Remington 870, Saiga-12 and finally MR-412 Rex.
With this large quantites of equipment were being donated by the Russian Gorvenment to keep at bay any Internal threats with now they began using this against the Russian Forces.