http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=3281808&PageNum=0
"More than twenty-eight thousand crimes, committed by organised criminal gangs, were disclosed in Russia last year, including ninety-three kidnappings and 2,500 hold-ups and extortions, Nurgaliev reported. According to Interior Ministry figures, there are now more than four hundred large organised criminal rings in the country, numbering more than ten thousand men. The Interior Ministry had for the first time-ever taken stock of such gangs in 2005, and they were all included in one single automated databank. "
