Are there any recent articles about the activities of the Solntsevskaya and Izmailovskaya linked brigades that operate in the US ?
Hard to find, to be honest. I know that they are there from a guy I did time together back in 2013, he was deported from United States and said there in Boston in some immigrant prison he was, some guys were as well connected with these both groups.
Only most sites mention that they are active there. Also there some Russian articles that mention that mostly these groups use US for laundering money and buying Real Estate or doing large investments in legal businesses. However, I found these:
Organization Attributes Sheet – Izmailovskaya(I think could be after 2010, as youngest resource is from 2010)4
http://research.ridgway.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IzmailovskayaPROFILEFINAL.pdfVery familiar about Solncevskaya:
http://research.ridgway.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/SolntsevskayaBratvaPROFILEFINAL.pdfRUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME IN
THE UNITED STATES(2007)
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/218560.pdf
