RACKET
The foreign word “racketeering” appeared in the Russian language in the “wild” nineties of the twentieth century and became almost as “native” as “roof” or “common fund”. “Racketeer” is not just “extortion” translated from English, just as “manager” is not just “manager.” Like the feudal lords of the Middle Ages, active racketeers offer their victims protection from other criminals - "lone wolves", and are themselves usually under someone's protection. So racketeers and corrupt officials or other government employees are twin brothers. Moreover, officials often collect tribute themselves, and criminal racketeers reach high positions.
Accordingly, a racketeer is not a private person, but a member of an organized crime group, which has its own criminal code, its own table of ranks and its own state within a state. Like thieves in law, racketeers have their own criminal hierarchy, their own meeting places, “pocket” officials, bribed courts and even lured media.
Racket in the USA
Although the word “racketeering,” like “mafia,” has Italian roots, the golden age of racketeering was the 1930s in the United States. The Great Depression was raging in the country, citizens thirsted for justice, criminals became national heroes, and big business used the mafiosi in their criminal interests. It was then that the most famous American mafia syndicate was created - the “Five Families”, glorified in the epic film saga “The Godfather”.
The descendants of the mafiosi of the 1930s also operated in the 1960s and 70s, protecting highly profitable industries such as the construction business. It was thanks to the “tax” that the racketeers levied that the cost of apartments in New York became the highest in all the States, ahead of other American cities. The omnipotence of racketeers was put to an end by the RICO Act, adopted half a century ago, which made racketeers criminals and allowed them to be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
At the same time, even an extortionist who has long since reached old age can be put behind bars in the United States. By the way, a few years ago in the States, the oldest racketeer was released, who received his last sentence of 93 years and celebrated his centenary in prison. In total, this seasoned “inmate” spent about 40 years in prison.
Stages of development
Racket as a phenomenon has gone through various stages of development throughout its history. At the early stages of his development, he was mainly concerned with the strict confiscation of part of the profits from persons who were engaged in legal or illegal types of business. The racketeer did this in various forms. At the second step, this phenomenon began to have a softer character. Racketeering began to be legalized in the form of all sorts of security companies, participated in the privatization of commercial companies, and created their own enterprises. And already at the 3rd step of his own development, he began to promote the products and services of controlled companies on the market. Conditions for exclusive use were made for selected types of products. In other words, the racketeers agreed to sell the products of “sponsored” companies to businessmen who were located on their territory and were under their control. Therefore, these businessmen had to, if, of course, they needed it, to take the products of those companies that the racketeers indicated to them. At the fourth, penultimate, step, the transformation of criminal activity into security personal entrepreneurial activity took place. Thus, racketeer is a profession that has gradually become a thing of the past, having been transformed into another, more legitimate one.
Racket in Russia and the USSR
Citizens of the USSR learned about racketeering from films about criminal morals in the world of purity and magazines like “Man and the Law.” The first to use this exotic term were the undoubted classics - Ilf and Petrov in One-Storey America. Their own racketeers, who “protected” the “guild workers” and at the same time collected tribute from them, appeared in the USSR already in the Brezhnev era.
This was due to the fact that almost any business that went beyond the activities of single artisans was outlawed. The Lyubertsy and other organized crime groups, which were actively involved in extortion, were well known during the Soviet era. But this word came into wide use after the collapse of the Soviet Union, along with street shootouts of the new “masters of life”, bribery, which they did not hesitate to talk about publicly, and dubious characters who took control of entire industries.
According to expert estimates, by the mid-1990s, almost 90% of the economy of the new Russia was under the control of racketeers. The Moscow region, Tambov and Tver organized crime groups, the harsh Chelyabinsk mafia thundered throughout the country, and the Chechen mafiosi retain extreme influence today.
But competition among racketeers led to the same result as the “showdowns” among pirates, “ordinary” bandits and other “forest orderlies” in human form that have existed from time immemorial. By the end of the decade, most of them destroyed each other, there was less and less space for the survivors, while “wild” capitalism acquired a more decent appearance.
Seizing Tactical Superiority
It is quite possible that under pressure from the pressing player the opponent will stumble and make a mistake. In such a situation, a behavior scenario that is beneficial to the attacking side immediately comes into force.
We have all more than once found ourselves in unpleasant situations related to violations of business ethics: a partner could suddenly get out of control and indulge in unacceptable behavior - screaming, emotions, rudeness and other unpleasant gestures. But as soon as we bought into this behavioral model and responded in a similar way, our opponent immediately regained control of himself and immediately ended the negotiations. Moreover, being the obvious initiator of the conflict, he tried to make us guilty: “How dare you behave like that?! There is no point in continuing negotiations. Further communication will take place only with your superiors!”
Racketeering and the Criminal Code
If American racketeers are tried under the RICO Act, then their Russian “colleagues” fall under Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. At first glance, it implies mild punishments - up to 4 years in prison plus a fine of up to 40 thousand rubles. But this applies to individual ransomware. Members of criminal syndicates involved in extortion on an especially large scale, that is, racketeers themselves, face more severe penalties - up to 15 years in prison plus a fine of up to a million rubles “per brother.” However, according to experts in the criminal world, the size of the sanctions is not comparable to the real “income” of the racketeers.
At the same time, there is no article dedicated to racketeering as such in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, nor is there an unambiguous definition of this concept. According to most professionals, racketeering is extortion carried out by criminal groups and merged with other types of crimes, such as corruption, malfeasance, and so on.
Elimination of emotional stress
A very common situation that has happened to each of us more than once.
So, imagine: it’s been a hard day, two-hour traffic jams in the morning, your head is buzzing after yesterday’s corporate party, and as a result, you’re late for a meeting, a meeting with a business partner, the failure of an important deal, an unpleasant conversation with management. You are not collected, and you feel, to put it mildly, lousy - not a trace remains of your usual positive fighting spirit
Suddenly there is a knock on the door, someone’s face appears, glowing with a smile and goodwill, and with a friendly expression says: “Good afternoon! I have one very interesting offer for you!” What thought immediately appears in your head? Exactly! At this moment, everything that has accumulated during the day is written on your face. For the person pressing, this is an ideal target, which he will not hesitate to hit accurately and skillfully. This, of course, is not your fault, but, unfortunately, this happens.
Qualifying signs of racketeering
Also, racketeering has its own qualifying characteristics that bring it closer to other types of especially serious crimes. This is the threat of violence or violence itself (including torture and murder), the implementation of racketeering by organized crime groups, the widespread use of racketeering as control over other areas of the criminal world (including drug trafficking, prostitution, and so on). At the same time, both large enterprises and entire sectors of business, as well as micro-businesses represented by shops and stalls, can become the subject of racketeering. There were many such examples in the legal practice of the 1990s, with racketeers exacting tribute from even completely hopeless dying enterprises.
Racketeer activities
Based on the beliefs of the law, this word meant the criminal seizure of part of the profit by force, if the “target” did not agree to this voluntarily. This profession became very popular in those distant times. It got to the point of delirium: when kids in kindergarten were asked what they wanted to become, many said “racketeer.” So who is a racketeer? This word was used to describe representatives of criminal organizations who were engaged in extracting part of the profits from companies and companies in exchange for security. These services were then called security services. A whole system has formed. Each group had its own territory, in which they imposed tribute on all business representatives indiscriminately. Its own kind of government within the country. The representative of crime was both a tax collector and an arbiter in disputes with other entrepreneurs. With all this, the laws at such a court differed from those that were adopted in the country.
Racket and "roof"
Signs of racketeering include the presence of one’s own “roof” both in the bureaucratic bureaucracy and in the police (now the police) and even in the journalistic environment. The capital, St. Petersburg, Tambov, and other groups had such “roofs.” Accusation of “protection” for racketeers is the best way to “drown” an intractable partner or a dangerous competitor. Judging by the accusations of journalists and reports of high-ranking foreign politicians, the largest Russian banks and even the FSB were at one time seen as providing protection for criminal groups.
RACKET FEELINGS REMIND OLD MEMORIES
Let's look at this using the example of some parents.
For example, there are mothers who may experience racketeering feelings: “I will be very scared and worried if you don’t call me. Call me every day." When children write or call such mothers, the mothers feel loved, and they may have experienced similar feelings in their childhood. Thus, they use racket feelings in order to get love for themselves, most likely they did the same in their childhood to get the love of their parents, or their parents did the same with them, and therefore this is the only way they know how receive love. Perhaps now such mothers do not receive the amount of love they need to feel happy. If you recognize your mother in this example, hug her when you meet her and tell her that even if you don’t call her, you still love her.
Another example is with dads. They can sometimes use their anger to keep everyone in the family under control, which helps dads feel secure. When these dads were little, their parents told them that they had to be obedient, trustworthy and strong, for this the boys (future dads) began to control everything and everyone around them in order to follow the rules that their parents dictated. Their children can also become as domineering and cruel as they are. This is a manifestation of racketeering feelings.
Have you ever experienced racketeering feelings? Which ones exactly? How do you feel when someone has these feelings towards you? Do you like it? If not, and you want to avoid quarrels with other people, connect yours through your Adult ego state (start thinking) and learn to recognize your racket feelings.
Racket and cinema
But to understand the essence of racketeering, it is not necessary to study thick volumes of criminal cases or even study the Criminal Code. Just look at films about racketeering, starting with the 1951 American film of the same name (not to be confused with the almost forgotten Russian TV series of the early 1990s) and ending with the famous “Brother”, where this theme is also present, and the TV series “Brigada”. Also, the topic of racketeering is perfectly covered in the Kazakh film of the mid-2000s “Racketeer,” which proves that the same processes as in Russia took place in other fragment countries of the USSR.
It is noteworthy that in Russian films the fight against racketeering is usually waged by a lone hero who confronts corrupt officials and other scoundrels. Hollywood also makes such films, and yet in a good half of US films, criminals await well-deserved retribution from a fair law.
Racketeer
Specifically, at the end of the 80s of the last century, offenders, together with classic violations of the law, began to threaten violence against individuals, damage and liquidation of property in this case, if citizens did not want to pay tribute. This was caused by the changes that had occurred in the socio-economic life of the country. This type of criminal activity very soon became one of the most profitable. The meaning of the word “racketeer” is a representative of the criminal world who, taking advantage of people’s vulnerability to force, guaranteed illegal immunity from their own attacks. This type of activity began to be called racketeering.
Translator (2015)
Lev Korablev does translations from Chinese, and he has absolutely no time for his child. One day he takes the boy on a business trip at a time when the leader of the local mafia decides to start a showdown. As a result, the boy suffered and also became an involuntary witness. The child's condition is serious and an expensive operation is needed. Lev does not know where to get the required amount and decides to go to the mafia. He agrees to give money in exchange for the fulfillment of three wishes.
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Sliding (2013)
A police operative nicknamed “Ashes” combines service to the people with crime. It consists of a group of employees - “werewolves in uniform.” Recently, corrupt cops began to notice that there was a “rat” on their team, informing the FSB. Ashes are suspected of betrayal by those who betrayed their oath. They decide to destroy their accomplice in order to avoid exposing the entire group. A top-rated Russian film about cops mired in crime and turned into bandits.
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Robbers (2017)
Phil and Red have been friends since childhood. They steal cars together and are ready to help each other out at any moment. But Phil has one drawback - an addiction to card games. Once he lost a large sum of money to a crime boss, but was unable to repay the debt. Red decides to help out his friend and find money against the law, getting involved in a dangerous adventure. His plan failed and now the bosom friends are faced with real problems.
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My last name is Shilov (2013)
Operator Roman Shilov finally decides to give up the hateful service: the dismissal report has been agreed upon, the bypass sheet has been signed, all that remains is to take a vacation. The lieutenant colonel gets into the car and goes to another city to visit the woman he loves to talk, make peace and dot the i’s. On the way, the wife of informant Mikhail Krasnov calls him and reports that her husband was kidnapped by bandits. Shilov, without hesitation, rushes to help.
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Factory (2018)
Entrepreneur Kalugin did not pay his employees wages for six months, and then completely announced that in a month everyone would be fired. A former special forces soldier, a veteran of the Chechen war, nicknamed Sedoy, persuades his colleagues to take radical measures. They kidnap Kalugin and keep him locked up in the workshop. A group of “specialists” from the entrepreneur’s security comes to the rescue of their boss. A life-and-death confrontation begins.
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Assessing your opponent's capabilities
Events here develop according to the “rubber boot principle.” We all remember very well how in childhood, in rainy weather, our parents gathered us for a walk. Mom carefully and carefully adjusted our jacket, put on a hat and rubber boots, saying: “What a clever girl! Now you are not afraid of any puddles,” to which we hopefully answered: “How? Can I run through puddles now?” Dad, standing nearby, thinking for a second, said: “Yes, you can, but not for everyone. You can’t walk in deep water.” And we, as children, ran out into the street with only one goal - to find the deepest puddle.
During negotiations, pressing allows you to accurately define the behavioral framework within which the partner feels confident and comfortable, helps to find that critical point, that “deep puddle”, once stepped into which the opponent will no longer be able to adequately control his reaction to what is happening. After crossing the line of this invisible line, the presser has no more need to control the negotiations, because he now controls the opponent.
Within the framework of this goal of pressing, the fundamental place is occupied by the rule already familiar to us: they do not negotiate with the weak - they negotiate with him. Therefore, for the person pressing, at this stage, the most important thing is to observe the opponent, assess his resistance to stress and ability to block blows. After all, this is the only way to understand how strong a competitor you are and whether it’s worth spending your precious time and other resources on you.
Gas holder. Clubare (2018)
Promoter Arthur is famous for constantly setting people up. One day he decides to open a club called Clubare, which attracts businessman and investor Zuckerberg. Arthur receives a deposit, and then faces a whole bunch of problems. Troubles arise for a reason, but because of the activities of the police, who have long planned to incapacitate the guy. If you like Russian films about crime and bandits, describing the reality of modern Russia, this is what you need.
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Nineties after 1990s
The 1990s do not end with the advent of a new century. In 2000, the sequel to “Brother” was released, and two cult crime opuses appeared almost in a row – the TV series “Brigade” (2002) and Buslov’s “Boomer” (2003). The honest guy against the gangsters will return in Antikiller (2002) and will continue to live in numerous projects for male audiences. Burlesque on a crime theme will be greeted by Roman Kachanov in “Down House” (2001), Grigory Konstantinopolsky in “Russian Demon” (2018). In general, it's not empty.
"Triumph" (2000)
If for the “old people” the world turned upside down in the 1990s, then for the children it “tipped a little and fell into place.” This is the reasoning of Red, a provincial dealer of a synthetic stimulant invented by his older brother. The boy is working off debts to a wholesaler, full of teenage illusions that he himself is a bandit. But soon Red falls in love with a homely girl, Yulia, who is dating a guy from a hated gang of abreks. He plans to cynically destroy his opponent, but sets himself up.
"Triumph", a film about teenage gangs of the late 1990s, is still a street kid. His story begins in Hollywood, where in 1993, the author of “Petrov and Vasechkin,” Vladimir Alenikov, began writing the script for the crime melodrama “The Princess’s War.” The text was completed in collaboration with Denis Rodimin and put into production, but after a quarrel with the producer, Alenikov froze filming. Director Oleg Pogodin edited “Triumph” from the footage, indicating Alenikov and Rodimin in the credits, against the wishes of both.
The film about a minor drug dealer was not released, but a video for the song “Fly with me”, assembled from his footage, became a hit. In 2013, Alenikov finally finished filming “The Princess’s War” and even managed to sue VKontakte over the free placement of “Triumph”. Stuffed with slow-mo and reduced to a slobbering happy ending, “The Princess’s War” is much inferior to the rave “Triumph”, in the center of which is the young Russian Joker.
"Moscow" (2000)
A post-modern drama about crime and Moscow gangsters handling black cash and their bohemian surroundings. The script was written by Vladimir Sorokin in 1998 and is full of the signature toothy assessments of the era. They are layered with very elaborate scenes (a bandit's courier cuts a hole in the map in place of Moscow and fucks the drunken Ingeborga Dapkunaite through it), but due to the masterful acting of the actors they seem natural.
The charm of the film grows from the contrasts: the bandits first inflate each other with pumps, and then suffer about the fate of their homeland and Russian ballet, the holy fool character of Tatyana Drubich sings Soviet songs with jazz accompaniment, and the impetuous violin is constantly replaced by techno. The picture is completely clinical, but the diagnosis is not clear even to the psychiatrist character - the gangster society reminds him only of a bunch of undercooked dumplings.
"Blind Man's Bluff" (2005)
Unlike “Brother,” this comedy by Balabanov ridicules the clichés of the era of “accumulation of initial capital” without lyricism. Dark humor permeates every level of the film, from dialogue to references. Every death here is comical, and the main line is a random and absurd collision between six cops (Viktor Sukhorukov) and a boss (Nikita Mikhalkov), who gives the best explanation in the world for the concept of “getting into trouble.”
The cast of “Zhmurok” is in itself a big salute to the films of the 1990s (the only thing missing is Sidikhin and Okhlobystin). But despite the fact that each character kills on the spot, the story flows without a hero. Dyuzhev, Panin, Makovetsky, Sukachev - it’s as if they merge into a single organism, into a kind of mad dog among the flowered wallpaper.
Of course, I’m tired of noticing parallels with Tarantino, but it’s hard not to: three of the bandits always remain in the frame, forming perfect triangles that you can’t take your eyes off. Laughter gives way to cold trembling only in the finale: when the stolen heroin teleports Dyuzhev and Panin into comfortable chairs opposite the Kremlin.
"Stoker" (2010)
Another appeal by Balabanov to the theme of crime and gangsters of the 1990s, but this time it is completely tragic. Ethnic Yakut Ivan Skryabin is the same former Afghan from the militants of the 1990s. But he is old, shell-shocked and does not notice the bandits, even burning the corpses that a former colleague drags into his basement stoker. Scriabin is truly only interested in the happiness of his daughter and the ethnographic story about a Russian exile who ruined the life of a Yakut family. The old man spends days retyping this story from memory.
All these blind repetitions lead to one thing - the fireman runs into something he didn’t try to fight against. His beautiful daughter is killed by a bully working for a colleague who slept with both her and the boss’s daughter. Only now, the Afghan, who allowed his daughter to be burned in his own stoker, decides to put on a ceremonial suit with medals and go to take revenge - in his last and rather meaningless battle.
"Eurasian" (2010)
This co-production of France, Lithuania and Russia is not set in the 1990s. But coming to Moscow to collect an old debt, a drug dealer named Gena makes a time jump. Barred stalls, fat-faced monsters in jackets and corrupt cops. In addition to the debtors, Gena also has a former lover in Moscow - a tragic prostitute, brilliantly played by Claudia Korshunova. In stiletto heels, she runs with Gena across icy roofs and railroad tracks, hiding from his tireless enemies.
Despite all the similarities, the racketeer in a leather jacket is not so much a tribute to the action films of the 1990s as a typical intimate hero of the director. Bartas is not interested in his relationship with conscience; he makes a film about the loneliness of a “Eurasian” wandering across a redrawn map of the continent. The director played the wanderer himself.
"Eight" (2014)
In the morning, four friends of the riot police chase away the striking factory workers, and at night - the local untouchable Buts gang with connections to the mayor's office. Soon one of them begins to secretly sleep with Butsa's girlfriend, and now the friends are fighting the mafia to the death.
The script for “The Eight” is based on the story of the same name by Zakhar Prilepin, published in 2012. Events take place in a conventional Russian province on the eve of the millennium: factories stopped working, some guys became bandits, others became riot police. But both of them wear the same black hats and beat the most vulnerable. It’s not clear to my riot police friends why they should drive away the workers of a corrupt factory, but there are no more options. Even Yeltsin is tired and orders us to enter “the new millennium with new faces.”
The only thing Alexei Uchitel’s heroes really want is to press on the gas and not see anything. One of them has animal sex to relax, the rest have dirty figure eight and fights. If they accelerate too fast, the seemingly good guys will one day see the girl's corpse. Nearby there is a shining inscription “Happy New Year 2000” and a dark tunnel.
“I found a scythe on a stone” (2017)
The film by Anya Kreis, like “Eight,” tells about the events taking place in 1999. But this is a different film stylistically and generationally, and belongs to a completely different chapter of the film myth about the Russian 1990s.
A racketeer in a black jacket sarcastically asks his friend: “Don’t you watch TV? The mafia has entangled everyone and everything.” But on TV, only young Putin talks about the big tasks and provocations that are expected from the enemy. The criminals sitting in the police station carefully watch the famous speech, and meanwhile, at the Mironovich family’s home, they drink to their son, who died in the Second Chechen War. His older brother returns from the war alive, he wants to fulfill the last wish of the deceased - to ride a motorcycle.
Stuffy men threaten Yeltsin with pancakes on TV. Workers of an idle chintz factory go from apartment to apartment and recruit Jehovah's Witnesses, because Ivanovo has turned into Babylon. At the same time, the connection between the characters is drowned in the decorativeness of the scenes, naive references to Ostrovsky and Balabanov, and events happen to them for no particular reason.
Another young debut about the 1990s, “Crystal” by Daria Zhuk, suffered about the same thing. Both films show provincial culture from afar - from a temporal, and most importantly, geographical distance. Zhuk (USA) and Kreis (Germany), who have lived abroad for a long time, are making films about their homeland, which they seem to have glimpsed in crime action films. On the other hand, if the boundary between the screen and the streets is erased, then what difference does it make what the cinema is more like?
Perhaps this alcohol-fuelled, tawdry videodrome is a new statement about that time from the generation that was just born then. In “Tightness” by Kantemir Balagov, the truth is also revealed only through a videotape.
“How Vitka Chesnok took Lekha Shtyr to the nursing home” (2017)
One of the brightest Russian debuts of recent years – literally, too. An acid road movie by Alexander Hunt about former orphanage Vitka Chesnok, who meets his own father, bandit Lekha Shtyr, who is confined to a wheelchair. For the sake of the apartment, Garlic agrees to take his hated parent to a nursing home, but along the way he begins to feel irritatingly warm towards him. Shtyr also develops feelings for his son. But there is still too much resentment, anger and stupidity here.
While the heroes are traveling in Vitka’s red wreck, phantoms of the past creep in from everywhere: first Shtyr’s second wife and daughter, whom he also annoyed and now don’t need, then his former accomplices, who seem to have lain in their graves since the 1990s. Alexey Serebryakov, who has played more than one racketeer in his career, fights here too, and his on-screen son Evgeny Tkachuk plays an even more colorful gopnik than in the gay drama “Winter Retreat” (2013).
The nineties in “Vitka Chesnok...” are a texture of murderous faces, causeless aggression and endless machinations: everything that still feeds small Russian cities, on which the rapper Husky, who sounds here in the soundtrack, built his image.
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Superbad (2016)
A character from a Russian crime movie, Dmitry, loses money belonging to a tough boss in a casino. The bandits not only demand repayment of the debt, in order to pay off, Dima must smuggle drugs. He is also informed that his beloved has been taken hostage and is being held in a Vietnamese brothel. The guy understands that he must act quickly and involves his friends in the matter. The squad is ready to fight, but will everyone be able to survive?
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Winter (2018)
The drunken gang attacked Alexander and his father, who were returning home, for fun, deciding to mock them. As a result, the elderly man died at the scene, and Alexander was wounded. After some time, he comes to his senses in the hospital, but the story does not end there. The bandits want to remove Alexander, because he is the only witness to what happened. The guy seeks revenge and begins to pursue the criminals.
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Golovar (2018)
Roman started doing business back in the dashing 90s, when lawlessness reigned in the country. Over time, he became a respectable entrepreneur, a respectable and wealthy man. When he wins a tender to develop jade deposits, strange things begin to happen around this deal. This Russian film is about the self-defense of the protagonist from gangster lawlessness, when the subject of the tender turns out to be the sphere of interest of people who are ready to commit crime.
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About football (2013)
The heroes of one of the best Russian crime films with an exciting plot are participants in the Russian football fan movement. A well-organized group of football hooligans can easily become very dangerous and aggressive. It’s difficult to get into this team, but once you get there, there’s no turning back. The film is about guys who don't just go to football games to wave scarves with the logo of their favorite team. For them, the stadium is a battlefield where they engage in brutal combat with fans of the other team.
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Forced March: Hunt for the “Hunter” (2015)
Alexander Buida is a major, head of an elite special forces unit. The task of the “specialists” is to stop the wave of crime that has filled the country. When the FSB becomes aware of the upcoming meeting of thieves in law in Astrakhan, Buida’s fighters go to the place of the “arrow”. The special forces commander is responsible for the success of the operation. The group was ordered to capture the authorities Usmanov and Rauf. The first is arrested, and the second manages to escape from law enforcement officers.
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Informant
These two defendants face the harshest possible sentences, up to life in prison, even though virtually everything they agreed to do was suggested to them by an undercover FBI informant coded in court documents as CS-1 (for confidential source).
A total of three informants were involved in the investigation, which began in 2014, although CS-1 did the lion's share of the work.
According to the prosecutor's office, this is a former figure of Russian organized crime, who was arrested in the past in the United States in a case of attempted contract murder and served about six years. After his release, the man became involved in helping justice and works as a paid FBI informant. The intelligence service says they are satisfied with his work.
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The FBI recorded conversations the informant had with the suspects (file photo)
On November 19, 2015, Dzhikia and Marat-Ulu allegedly sold him a .38-caliber Ruger Service Six revolver in Brooklyn for $600, although they knew that he had a criminal record and, therefore, did not have the right to own a weapon.
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Just last week, Jikia and Marat-Ulu allegedly sold a .45-caliber Hi-Point Firearms pistol to a CS-1 agent for $500.
According to FBI investigator Bruce Turpin, Marat-Ulu and five of his associates were able to obtain pistols and semi-automatic rifles, for which they asked the informant for $500 and $1,000, respectively, as well as kilograms of heroin.
The FBI recorded a conversation in which Marat-Ulu told CS-1 that in the past he had been arrested near Chicago for a device that read credit card data for further counterfeiting.
Self-affirmation at the expense of the opponent
There are people for whom all adequate concepts of negotiations are reduced to nothing in comparison with the only important thing - to psychologically suppress the opponent, to defeat him. These are, in a way, aggressors who realize themselves at the moment of dominance over their partner, which inspires them many times more than the successful achievement of certain rational goals of negotiations.
There is no need to give specific examples, we will only note that the manifestation of aggression, which gives pleasure, unfortunately, is characteristic of many people. And this must be remembered during any negotiations. There is a certain type of personality, or rather, even a certain type of their moods and states, during which it is pointless to negotiate. At such moments, a person plays one single role - the role of the destroyer of everything that surrounds him. There are a lot of examples of such negotiations doomed to failure. At the stage of preliminary discussion of the transaction, written coordination of key points, both parties show a clear interest in cooperation. But when it comes to a personal meeting, one of the parties suddenly begins to behave illogically and hostilely: without accepting objections, with frantic persistence it suppresses the position of a potential partner. Of course, in the best case, negotiations simply stop. And if, upon completion, we ask the perpetrator of this incident about the motivations for his irrational behavior, then in response we will hear some terribly hackneyed phrase: “Come on, everything is fine! Give them a blast! Let them know who they are dealing with!”
