Deck 9: Russian Organized Crime

Question 1

ussian gangsters have been involved in the production and sale of what drug?

A) heroin
B) methamphetamine
C) cocaine
D) methadone

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The breeding and training ground for ROC was established during the ___________.

A) Communist era
B) Military era
C) Democratic era
D) none of these

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Vory v zakone" means:

A) "good for nothing"
B) "hall or gathering place"
C) "thieves with a code of honor"
D) "men of violence"

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In Post-Soviet Russia, several years of market reform changed the nature of the nation's economy, and also ____________________________ .

A) improved the standard of living for most people.
B) brought hyperinflation
C) reduced the level of unemployment
D) stabilized the political system

Question 5

rom which of the following did Russian organized crime emerge?

A) sports clubs and military b ethnic-based groups
C) vory
D) all of these

Question 6

Russians create ___________ structures on an as-needed basis to carry out particular crimes.

A) floating
B) rigid
C) strict kinship
D) all of these

Question 7

Post-1987 economic liberalization in Russia paved the way for the entry of _______________.

A) criminal organizations
B) improved law enforcement
C) bank regulations
D) all of these

Question 8

hich of the following activities is associated with Russian organized crime?

A) trafficking in women for the sex industry
B) trafficking in marijuana
C) smuggling immigrants into the country
D) cloning cell phones

Question 9

uring World War II, the vory split into two factions. he ___________ supported efforts to defeat the invading Nazis.

A) patriots
B) traditionalists
C) conservatives
D) realists

Question 10

uring WWII, the vory split into two factions. he _____________ were loyal to the thieves' world.

A) patriots
B) traditionalists
C) conservatives
D) realists

Question 11

Which of the following is not an ethnic group or national group involved in Russian organized crime?

A) Armenian
B) Sudanese
C) Tatar
D) Jewish

Question 12

hich of the following is true about the contemporary vory?

A) They allow female members
B) Tattoos are not required
C) Only former convicts can be members.
D) They are less well-organized than the old vory.

Question 13

hich of the following is one of the overarching and sometimes overlapping categories of Russian organized crime?

A) sportsmen and veterans
B) ethnic-based groups
C) the vory
D) all of these

Question 14

Where did the vory develop?

A) In church
B) In prison
C) In the slums
D) In saloons

Question 15

Vory members often had ____________ that reveal their status in the organization's hierarchy and even their criminal specialty.

A) jackets
B) flags
C) tattoos
D) all of these

Question 16

he Chechen organized crime portfolio includes which of the following? a arms trafficking
B) currency counterfeiting
C) financial document counterfeiting
D) all of these

Question 17

Nomenklatura are ________________.

A) thieves with a code of honor
B) elite Communist bureaucrats
C) czarists
D) Chechen crime groups

Question 18

Which of the following is (are) a part of Russian organized crime since the lifting of Communist control?

A) crime
B) politics
C) business
D) all of these

Question 19

hen did the new vory begin to appear?

A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Question 20

ory membership requires:

A) three sponsors
B) ceremony with an oath of allegiance to abide by 18 rules
C) both a and b
D) none of these

Question 21

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, vory groups were no longer an important element in Russian organized crime.

Question 22

ilitary veterans are one source of personnel for criminal organizations.

Question 23

Russian organized crime traffics women for the sex industry.

Question 24

hich of the following is not true about Russian organized criminals in the United States?

A) They are educated.
B) They have military experience.
C) They are high school dropouts.
D) They exploit the Russian émigré community.

Question 25

Currently, in the territory of the former Soviet Union, organized crime wields power over all the economy.

Question 26

ussian crime groups in the United States are typically comprised of how many people?

A) five to twenty
B) thirty to forty
C) about fifty
D) upwards of one hundred

Question 27

In the former Soviet Union, law enforcement resources have been inadequate to deal with the menace of organized crime.

Question 28

ikhail Gorbachev introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize. hich of the following was a consequence?

A) the Soviet republics drew closer together
B) nothing changed
C) the USSR splintered into Russia and 14 other independent states
D) all of these

Question 29

hat place has been likened to "Chicago of the twenties?"

A) Georgia
B) Moscow
C) Chechnya
D) Odessa

Question 30

In Orange County, California, criminals from the former Soviet Union, together with a local African-American gang, bribed insiders to gather information that allowed them to take over bank accounts.

Question 31

emion Mogilevich made his first fortune by defrauding _______ who were fleeing to the United States.

A) Jews
B) Italians
C) Catholics
D) Protestants

Question 32

any Russian émigrés have settled in the ____________ section of New York.

A) Manhattan
B) Upper West Side
C) Brighton Beach
D) Upper East Side

Question 33

ussian organized crime in the U.S. as involved with which crime Family in the fuel oil scam?

A) Genovese
B) Colombo
C) Gambino
D) Lucchese

Question 34

hich of the following statements is false?

A) Russian criminals began their criminal careers as members of adolescent street gangs in ethnic ghettos.
B) Russian organized crime encompasses any ethnic or national groups from the territory of the former Soviet Union.
C) In the former Soviet Union, law enforcement resources have been inadequate to deal with the menace of organized crime.
D) The breeding and training ground for Russian organized crime was established during the Communist era.

Question 35

The vory is one of the few organized crime groups that include both males and females.

Question 36

hich of the following was an identifier for the traditional vory?

A) tattoos
B) a coded language
C) both tattoos and a coded language
D) none of these

Question 37

Most Russian criminals began their criminal careers as members of adolescent street gangs in ethnic ghettos.

Question 38

The vory developed among hard-core prison camp inmates.

Question 39

n 1995, Ivankov's reign as the reputed leading Russian crime boss in the U.S. nded when he was arrested for violations of which law?

A) RICO
B) the Hobbs Act
C) the Harrison Act
D) Immigration laws

Question 40

Unlike the farmers and unskilled laborers who composed most of earlier immigrations to the United States, Russians émigrés are generally urban in origin, well educated, and industrially and technologically skilled.

Question 41

Russian organized crime has more in common with the American ____________ Barons than with the Sicilian Mafia..

Question 42

Russian Organized Crime has generated great concentrations of wealth and power. What will be the future of these oligarchies? Will their leaders and leaders' descendants be Russian equivalents of Astor, Vanderbilt, Drew, Gould, Sage, Rockefeller, and Stanford? Will their wealth and power become institutionalized?

Question 43

Russian organized crime emerged from ____________ clubs and fitness centers.

Question 44

he three overlapping categories of Russian organized crime are sportsmen and veterans, __________ -based groups, and the vory.

Question 45

How did the collapse of the Soviet Union change Russian organized crime?

Question 46

How was the new vory that emerged in the 1980s different from the previous version of the organization and why did it change?

Question 47

n1995, Ivankov was arrested for _______________ violations.

Question 48

escribe the fuel oil scam.

Question 49

The breeding and training ground for Russian organized crime was established during the ____________ era.

Question 50

Describe the organizational structure of the vory.

Question 51

Describe the structure and activities of Chechen crime groups.

Question 52

How is organized crime in the FSU different from Russian organized crime in the U.S.?

Question 53

In what way did economic liberalization foster organized crime in Russia?

Question 54

What happened to the Vory during WWII?

Question 55

The ____________ developed among hard-core prison camp inmates.

Question 56

Durkheim's concept of ____________ fits the situation in present-day Russia.

Question 57

Rather than hiring lawyers to settle disputes, Russians hire ____________

Question 58

How did the grain alcohol scam work?

Question 59

Gorbachev's modernization initiatives released forces that in 1991 led to the ______________ of the USSR.

Question 60

Semion Mogilevich, a Ukrainian-born Jew with a degree in economics, made his first fortune by defrauding fellow Jews who were fleeing to ______________.