Every year on Arrow, the show introduces a season-long flashback, which explains some aspect of Oliver's past. In Season 5, so far, Oliver has been kidnapped by a Russian gangster while in the country ...

While it’s been patently obvious for some time that the Season Five flashbacks were headed to Russia, and that while there Oliver would encounter the Bratva as part of his journey to syncing up the ...

LONDON, ENGLAND--(Marketwired - Jan 11, 2017) - From Japan's highly organised Yakuza to Russia's 9,000 member-strong Solntsevskaya Bratva, criminal gangs remain very much at large in the world today.

Forget The Godfather Don Corleone, the most dangerous gangsters in the world are Russians. The brutal Solntsevskaya Bratva top a list of worldwide organised crime, pushing the US-based Mafia to the ...