Russian Mafia Puns

I’ve always loved the detective thriller type genre. Books and movies.

After watching movies like John Wick and Nobody, written by Derek kolstad, I’m super interested in the Russian crime scene.

Are there any books, translated into many languages (preferably dutch), that are sort of a detective meets Russian crime genre?

I've heard the hammer dlight, dash jump into recovery, and dair being referred to as "the russian mafia" in a youtube video. Why?

Because jacket

Apparently, most media circulating Russians often allude to the evil guys or psychopaths. Are there any movies or tv shows which show a positive representation of Russians?

The most acceptable I would say is HBO's Chernobyl which had no Russian actors but did a good job at the storytelling and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. where the Russians were portrayed as any normal person in a western movie. My query is that are there any movies or Tv shows where Russians aren't portrayed as underworld dons, psychopaths in the KGB, murderous Femme Fatales?

Any positive representation?

Hi, so I’m pretty new to this whole Reddit and subreddit thing. Joined just a couple days ago, and I was sucked into this particular mafia Reddit. And needless to say, I’ve come across pretty interesting threads so far.

But I need authentic factual info on the Italian and Russian mafia ranks and their whole working. It’s for a piece of fiction that I’m very interested in writing but I can’t wholly depend on Wikipedia for it obviously. So any info, any out of the ordinary info, would do good!

Thanks in advance!