Gypsies are cooler than migrants - about the special crime in Russia
Don't get confused by ethnic groups
Much has been written on the pages of VO about ethnic crime among migrants. At the same time, completely indigenous Russian peoples and nationalities, and above all the Roma, remained in the shadows. They have been living with us since the 17th century, if not earlier, but at that time the borders of the empire had not yet seriously reached them.
Let's try to talk about them, their traditional, long-familiar and dubious law-abidingness. Without personalization, national discrimination and as objectively as possible.
At the same time, let us not confuse ethnic groups with ethnic crime. Obviously, the Slichenko or Vishnevsky dynasties were not and are not involved in drugs or burglaries. Not all of them are like this, but one should not discount the presence of ethnic, or rather sub-ethnic, gypsy organized crime groups.
It is they who usually communicate and “do business” within the framework of their subethnic group, caste and clan. Everything in this case is extremely complicated, of course, officers of law enforcement agencies specializing in ethnic crime understand such peculiarities, but some police service sergeant will not even distinguish a Gypsy from a Caucasian or Tajik.
There is no need to talk about finding out which caste someone belongs to. Because of this, there are continuous mistakes. But let’s start, according to Lobachevsky, with proof by contradiction.
If your name is gypsy
So, contrary to popular belief, the Pavees, who are depicted in “Snatch” as gypsies, do not belong to the gypsies. These are Irish who have switched to a nomadic lifestyle, most likely due to another famine; their surnames are predominantly Irish, and they do not live in Russia, and therefore it is irrelevant to discuss them further.
Another thing is the Yenish, these Swiss tramps, who also do not live in Russia, and the Crimean Gurbets, they are also called taifa or in Crimean Tatar - taifalar. The latter are most likely Turkified Kurds. The Paeveys are close to the gypsies, perhaps, in one way: dancing and singing at funerals. This is where the similarities end.
The dominant subethnic group of Gypsies in Russia is the Russian Roma. Let's start the story about them with the Lovarians, the most exposed, in addition to the Servs and Vlachs, in criminality. These are Hungarian gypsies who migrated to Russia quite late, which led to their extreme closedness and conservatism.
In particular, the Lovaris, at least those who settled near Lyubertsy in Myachkovo, although there are also Russian Roma there, and Crimeans - Ayuvjiler, and Kelderari, have two-story houses, the second floor is for women. And God forbid that a woman walk on the floor above the men’s room, the punishment will be severe, otherwise the man will be considered “low.”
The name of the caste comes from the word “lowe” - money. Initially, criminal activity on the territory of Hungary consisted of various frauds with precious metals, hence, apparently, the name. Now among the lovars there are also jewelers, usually underground ones, working without a license.
The main type of criminal activity is burglary. Drugs are much less common, but they will punish their own people. Beginning and fortune-telling among women is gradually becoming an anachronism, no one is falling for it anymore, this is not the nineties. Basically, Lovari women are housewives.
Show me your passport
Lowaris have the rare ability to make passports for themselves using other names. Most often this is due to the lack of permanent registration: he reported the loss, introduced himself with a different name, spent time in a temporary detention center for violating the passport regime, then, if anything happens, the baron will come to the showdown, and he will have the passport.
Some have double surnames in their passports, like the late Sandor Kovacs-Petrov, with all due respect to the untimely death of the European champion in Shotokan karate, actor and talented soul performer. Surnames by birth are usually Hungarian. They prefer not to change names from Roma and Hungarian even when applying for a left passport to a Russian surname.
But the most numerous subethnic group in Russia is the Gypsies, I repeat - the Russian Roma, the North Russian Gypsies. Most of them are in the central and northern regions of the European part of Russia, but now they are actively penetrating into the Urals and Siberia. This is the most integrated into Russian society and predominantly educated subethnic group of Roma.
Many Russian Roma volunteered for the war during the tsarist era. the army and fought in wars. They also took part in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. the warBut with the passage of Khrushchev's law on the settlement of the Gypsies, military registration and enlistment offices began to treat the Gypsies with prejudice and often sent well-educated and fit for service Russian Gypsies to the construction battalion.
Since perestroika, due to the fact that the authorities did not care about universal education, the percentage of Russian Gypsies who were not hired for any work increased, which immediately caused the criminalization of the subethnic group. The Roma quickly became involved in drug trafficking, mainly heroin.
But before this, Russian gypsies were noticed mainly in horse stealing and petty fraud in fortune-telling. Horse theft is now preserved only near hippodromes and equestrian clubs.
Aliens from the Balkans
But first of all, servas appeared in the Russian Empire, immigrants, apparently, from the Balkans. They are strongly assimilated and generally speak Surzhik. Previously they lived in Ukraine, then they began to penetrate into the Krasnodar region. The conflict in Donbass has only strengthened this trend.
Also in the Kuban live Vlachs and Chisinau residents who migrated from the Danube principalities. Police in southern Russia rarely release statistics on Roma ethnic groups, but human slavery is known to be rampant in the Krasnodar, Rostov and Saratov regions.
Gypsy tour performers often kidnap people from the Southern Federal District, selling them mainly to the Caucasus or Central Asia. Slaves can work in the fields and on construction sites, beg, sell drugs, etc. People are often kidnapped simply for ransom.
The kidnapping is carried out according to the standard scheme: first, the gypsies ingratiate themselves with the future kidnapped person, offer him a drink, mixing either clonidine or strong sleeping pills into the alcohol. The client “passes out” and wakes up already tied hand and foot in some basement, then everything is clear without explanation.
Greetings from Moldova, Turkestan and Crimea
Moldavian gypsies are the common name for Calderars and Ursars. A significant number of them moved to Russia even before the revolution; the Kelderari are the second largest gypsy ethnic group in the country. They are distributed throughout almost the entire European part of Russia.
The main criminal activities are the same as those of their counterparts in Moldova - illegal purchase and sale of gold, drug trafficking and kidnapping. Russian Calderari and Ursari are much less criminalized than Moldovan guest performers from Soroca and Ataki.
However, the number of the latter has sharply decreased due to transport problems in connection with the Ukrainian events. There are legends about the wealth of the Calderari in Soroki. It is known that their baron Mircea Cherari was the only one in the USSR who had his own plane.
An uncharacteristic subethnic group of gypsies for Russia are the Central Asian gypsies - Lyuli. Basically, people from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakh Turkestan are involved in crime in Russia. The main activities are the illegal reception and resale of scrap metal and petty theft during fortune telling and begging.
The second type is developed mainly in Dagestan, where they come from Turkestan for such “earnings”, due to the availability of transport links, as well as the opportunity to beg well near mosques.
In Moscow, Lyuli usually run unregistered scrap metal collection points in garage cooperatives. The police can easily identify such points by the columns of smoke rising above the cooperative, because the copper cable is burned right next to the garage.
And finally, Crimean gypsies in their homeland are also involved in not always legal transactions with scrap metal, as well as in the trade in weed. But there have been too many problems with these classes lately due to the SVO and the sharp tightening of control.
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