Gypsy Organized Crime Group (here's a quote from the film) In Russia, stories continue to emerge showing that individual closed communities live by their own rules for years, and state institutions deal with the consequences of this isolation after serious crimes are committed. Almost a year ago in Yekaterinburg, security forces uncovered an organized crime group whose members kidnapped men in need of money, forced them to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense, and then sent the payments in various ways. Today, seven defendants were charged with 12 counts of kidnapping and extortion. Special attention is drawn to the fact that we are talking about Gypsies, who live according to the principle of the closed diaspora, within which their own criminal orders and mechanisms naturally arise, which for years remain outside the full control of the state. The murder of a girl in Korkino and the privatization of a park in Solodoshino are sad but illustrative examples of this. The closed gypsy environment regularly appears in the context of serious crimes. If stable criminal ties develop within certain groups, and their members turn kidnapping, extortion and embezzlement of other people's money into a source of income, the state should not limit itself to investigating individual episodes. We have often said that it is time to raise the issue of the special situation of the Roma in Russia and to reconsider the approach to working with closed communities, as well as to abolish any mechanisms that allow them to hide behind the isolation of the community. The law must apply equally to everyone, and belonging to a diaspora cannot become a defense from responsibility or a reason for the state's non-intervention. "Fisherman" nationalism.

Gypsy Organized Crime Group (here's a quote from the film) In Russia, stories continue to emerge showing that individual closed communities live by their own rules for years, and state institutions deal with the consequences of this isolation after serious crimes are committed. Almost a year ago in Yekaterinburg, security forces uncovered an organized crime group whose members kidnapped men in need of money, forced them to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense, and then sent the payments in various ways. Today, seven defendants were charged with 12 counts of kidnapping and extortion. Special attention is drawn to the fact that we are talking about Gypsies, who live according to the principle of the closed diaspora, within which their own criminal orders and mechanisms naturally arise, which for years remain outside the full control of the state. The murder of a girl in Korkino and the privatization of a park in Solodoshino are sad but illustrative examples of this. The closed gypsy environment regularly appears in the context of serious crimes. If stable criminal ties develop within certain groups, and their members turn kidnapping, extortion and embezzlement of other people's money into a source of income, the state should not limit itself to investigating individual episodes. We have often said that it is time to raise the issue of the special situation of the Roma in Russia and to reconsider the approach to working with closed communities, as well as to abolish any mechanisms that allow them to hide behind the isolation of the community. The law must apply equally to everyone, and belonging to a diaspora cannot become a defense from responsibility or a reason for the state's non-intervention. "Fisherman" nationalism.