Talk:Thief in law

message: Podatev convictions are different on this page and the page about him.
: Here are some comments on the Bitch War topic.  Here is a quote: "by agreeing to join the Soviet army and fight against Nazi Germany during World War 2 (in exchange for being freed from prison)." 
Comment: From what I read in more than one source, Bitches were not just offered freedom in exchange for fighting in the war, but the only alternative they were given was death. It was a war time with "законы военного времени"-zakony voyennogo vremeni-war time laws.  Basically, if they said "no" they would have been shot without any due process.
97.116.34.140 (talk) 07:42, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Editors

message: : Hi there! I wanna say there are some mistakes. The word MIR in 'Vorovskoy Mir in Russian (i.e. воровской мир) or "Thieves World"' means community, not world. Community is obschina for russian, and this word is correlated with obschak (shared treasure of criminals) http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%BA
:For example community of peasants was named 'mir', and visitors of the Veche was 'mir'. Also FYI - 'vor' was the insurgent in the pre-imperial time, who fought against Tsar or renegade. 
Vori v zakanoi translates to thiefs within the law, not thiefs in law. First, the word "v" is only literarly "in." In the context of the phrase, the word means "within." Second, these guys don't have their relatives married. I propose a change of the title of the article. --RossF18 04:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This should be included somewhere, yes, but I'm pretty sure it does literally translate to "thieves in law," due to the differences between English and Russian. Russian is much more straight-forward: for example, you would, I believe, say something along the lines of "pass salt please" as opposed to "please pass me the salt," which explains the translation more accurately in my opinion. 64.253.217.50 (talk) 08:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that I'm a Russian speaker, you'd be well served trusting me on this. Even if you're a fan of literal translations, which is often incorrect, vori means thiefs, not thief. Vor singular in Russian means Thief. And Russian is not Tarzan speak and is more akin to Spanish in its alliterations. Thus, while vori v zakoni literally translates into thiefs in law if you were to translate it word for word, if you were a Russian speaker, you'd realize that it really means thieves within the law, especially considering that translating the Russian phrase as thiefs in law seems to be more akin to sister-in-law or brother-in-law in its meaning. The point here is that these thiefs opperate within the law, as opposed to theifs that are brothers-in-law. --RossF18 (talk) 22:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: We should be saying what things actually mean, not just translating them word-for-word - see here for basis. I don't speak Russian, but if someone who does reads this and agrees with it, I think it should be changed. be bold, Russian speakers! SetaLyas (talk) 15:04, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

text: A quick note. Translating the phrase as thiefs within the law does not mean that these thiefs are working withing the reputable system of laws of common society (quite the opposite). The law is the thief's law or code. It seems that many newspapers even translate the phrase as in law but that just doesn't make sense, at least to me. Now, if the phrase is meant to underly the fact that the thiefs are forming a brotherhood and are in fact becoming like brothers-in-law, that's fine. But that has not been made clear. If the phrase is meant to underline the almost family bond between the thiefs, then thiefs in law might fit, but if the phrase is meant to highlight the special code or law that these thiefs are agreeing to live by, than thiefs within the law seems more appropriate. --RossF18 (talk) 16:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, exactly. A slightly different translation can be a "thief with a code". But this is not just a "thief with a code" because it became a formal status.My very best wishes (talk) 01:23, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

text: I don't have an issue with translating vor as thief, since that's a common translation and common meaning of the word now, regardless of its origins. To make a crude comparison, and not to offend anyone, but just because the word gay predominanetly mean happy as recently as 50 years ago, doesn't mean that that is the word's primary meaning now. And the criminal organization that is being referred to in this article is rather recent, comparatively, to the 17'th century meaning of the word that Incnis cites. So, as far as current times is concerned, I doubt that "vor" was ever meant as an outlaw. Also, I'd like to point out that a thief is a type of criminal and you can even argue a type of outlaw, since a thief lives out of legal bounds. If you mean outlaw as in Wild West type of outlaw, then the phraze thief in law is even more poorly translated, but my main issue is the translation of the "in" as part of the phraze. Last point, last time I checked, thief translates directly into "vor" in most modern dictionaries.--RossF18 (talk) 23:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Thiefs in law

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message: Who the hell keeps making Kalashov a Russian and deleting Kolbayev??
87.113.77.83 (talk) 01:20, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, gentlemen. Are Thiefs an ethnic criminal network from Caucasus? Judging by the current news, very much so. Not in the sense of this article though) Ukrained2012 (talk) 00:39, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable thieves in law - someone keeps messing it up

message: Ladies and gentlemen, this article would benefit tremendously from our decision on the main article(s) describing and structuring the Organized crime in Russia and Organized crime in Soviet Union. I realize that those articles are MUCH harder to maintain than this term-based one, but nonetheless) Wishes, Ukrained2012 (talk) 00:35, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope and definiton 

message: No need names from every post soviet languages, we can see statistics by nationality on primecrime.ru:
Georgians 252 (58%)
Russians 51 (12%)
Armenians 32 (8%)
Yezidi Kurds 26 (6%)
Azerbaijanis 15 (4%)
Abkhazs 11 (3%)
Chechens 8 (2%)
Jews 7 (2%)
Ukrainians 6 (2%)
Greeks 5 (2%)
They are mostly from Georgia, majorly ethnic Georgians, and also ethnically minorities of Georgia: Yezidi Kurds, Greeks, Abkhazs, Osetians, Jews, Armenians, Azeri, Russian and Ukrainians. about 75 percent is from Georgia. enough will name to Georgian and Russian.--Gaga.vaa (talk) 12:45, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Other languages

message: …but it couldn't be improved by Wikipedia standards, I'm afraid. The thief-in-law community is very closed, similar to Yakudza. A very little information is leaked and published. Such words like 'crowned' (see the third paragraph) are never used but by journalists. The 'thief-in-law' word itself is never used by the street crime! It's a journalist fake too. (They say just 'thief' or, rarely, 'lawyer'). But how could one prove it by references, if all sources are unreliable due to the closed nature of the community? BloodViolenceGore (talk) 06:16, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The whole article is generally untrue