Anyway what people do not understand is that there is a war for vast resources in Russia and that the US would like to get them as well as total domination in the world. Russian OC is pretty strong and does not let US to commit something similar to what they did in Iraq therefore they are upset that things do not go their way. Additionally and it is obvious FSB and OC are elements of the same structure working together towards mutual benefits. No one would like to see Russia follow in the footsteps of Irag and obviously they are the obstacles that prevent Russia from collapse. It might be strange to say things like that but democracy is actually a propaganda tool to defeat your competitors, some sort of ideology similar to communism or fascism- in reality none of these ideologies can ever exist. This is some sort of high level analysis and does not look into normal crime matters
FSB has some control over various criminal groups in Russia, especially the big ones. These are mostly businessman crime groups, or people from authority structure who went to the crime side - such as ex cops, army men, kgb agents. There are rumours that few Vory V Zakone have contacts in such structures, but the main thing is that their code is against that. However it doesn't stop criminals being criminals, they will turn and work the rules their way whenever they can.
