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Basman is one of a number of districts of Moscow.
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«Duma» is the old Russian term from Russian «dumat» – to think, to brood.
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* Militia (police) of public safety.
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«Thief-in-law» is a professional thief or a swindler who has chosen crime as a way of earning his living, well known in the criminal world, and obeying the «law of the thieves», a special code for criminals – and observing and protecting it in the prisons. In the criminal world of thieves existed the
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International cooperation is very reduced today (Y.G., 2016).
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«Press cell» – a cell that can be found in all prison institutions. In such cells prisoners selected by the administration beat, torture, and rape other prisoners to obtain information from them or to make them compliant to the needs of the administration.