Law enforcement busts have shown that Russian organized crime is very loose and much less formal. There's no real evidence that the Russian Mafia outranks the Italian Mafia in the United States, even today. Organized crime busts, like the recent bust of Leonid Gershman and Co., show that the Russian Mafia as an organized criminal force is pretty much only dominant in Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay, compared to the New York Mafia which still exerts influence all over New York City and New Jersey.

Oak, I'm not going to "harass" you over it, but if you'd be willing to provide the evidence you hinted at earlier that the Russian Mafia is "by far the most powerful organized crime group in America right now" then I'd be happy to concede I'm wrong.