Exactly, people like to play up the russian mafia for some reason. Sure they are powerful in their home country, but what mafia isn't? Italians crazy powerful in Italy, mexicans in Mexico, and so on. But when you can survive and thrive in a country with tough law enforcement and not your ancestral homeland, then it's a true showcase of their power. And the Russians or other eastern European crime in the usa can't come close to la Cosa nostra in the usa, and there's no valid proof to prove otherwise.