"The 75-year-old Aslan Usoyan, known as Ded (Grandad) Khasan, was shot dead by a sniper on January 16th as he walked out of a central Moscow restaurant where he often received visitors. He was Russia’s most important “thief-in-law”, a term coined in the Gulag for a criminal bound by a code of honour ... Russian crime watchers say the killing of Mr Usoyan, who survived an attack in 2010, may have been ordered by a rival who is currently in jail. Or it could have been the work of Russia’s security services. It could even have been a joint project, given the fuzzy line between the two." (Quoted from article)