Yaponchik: Russian Immigration In The United States

One of the dangerous trends in community activities of the thieves-in-law is a systematic work to establish its influence on prisoners and released from correctional institutions. This is done both directly and via bribery, threats, terrorizing inmates, and by sending special envoys who are given mandates with the authority. It suppressed to resist the will embarked on the path of correction, localized sources of information on organized crime. Leaders organize spreading false rumors against convicts embarked on the path of the correction process of newcomers in the area of convicts, distorted interpretations penitentiary laws and rules of serving the sentence.

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Russian is not the only ethnic group that emerged in the United States, is also not the only group in which the perpetrators are found. One of the most controversial figures of the Russian Mafia in the USA was Vyacheslav Ivankov, known as “Yaponchik” which is translated from Russian as “Little Japanese”. After arriving in the US in 1992, and until his arrest by the FBI in 1995, he was mysterious and even mythical person. Rumors had made him the image of a person, called the father of extortion and most influential thief in the Soviet Union. He was the criminal leader of the Russian Far East, and one of the largest New York newspapers called him "the Red godfather", who was sent to New York by the thieves to organize and control the criminal activity there. US officials, particularly the FBI, definitely thought Ivankov was the main organizer of criminal acts on the territory of the United

She became the first in the list of foreign criminal organizations, compiled by the American Foreign Ministry. In addition to measures of criminal law, the American authorities began to apply and finance. So, in July, 2011 in the US was released a new strategy to combat transnational organized crime, providing a wide range of preventive measures. In order to implement it, US President Barack Obama issued a decree imposing sanctions against four foreign criminal organizations: Japanese "Yakuza", Italian "Camorra", the Mexican “Los Zetas" and the Eurasian "Brothers' Circle". According to the FBI, "Brothers' Circle" is a multinational criminal organization composed of leaders and active members of several organized crime groups based in the CIS, but spreading its activities in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The decree provides the freezing of bank accounts and seizure of the property of members of these organizations, denial of their entry into the United States and a ban on transactions with