User:Semmier/Russian mob

The Russian mob was a group of Russian mobsters who were transporting heroin in Hell's Kitchen, New York City for the crime lord Wilson Fisk. The mob was led by the two Russian brothers Vladimir and Anatoly Ranskahov.

Working with Wilson Fisk
Eventually the two brothers arrived in Hell's Kitchen in New York City where they were recruited by Wilson Fisk to transport heroin produced by Madame Gao. By 2015 they had built their own organization, mainly consisting by Russian men, based in their Russian Hideout. They also had a garage where they prepared stolen cabs and painting them with the Veles Taxi sign, in order to use them for their drug distribution business.

Women smuggling
Turk Barrett was given the job of transporting a group of young women in a cargo holder to be used as prostitutes overseas. When the girls would not stop screaming due to the traumatic ordeal, Barrett held a gun at their heads and threatened them; he then promised that if they stopped screaming, he would be kind enough to give them a bucket to use as a toilet. In order to stop their screams, Barrett stunned one of the girls with a taser before ordering his men to put them in the cargo hold to begin their journey. Before the girls could be taken away, Barrett and his men were attacked by a man in a mask; although Barrett fired his gun at his attacker, he seemingly dodged the bullets before hiding amongst the cargo holds. Barrett continued to search for his enemy but was quickly disarmed by the man who beat him senseless before rescuing the girls. Barrett was forced to contact his employers, the Ranskahovs and inform them of what he had witnessed. Despite the strangeness of the story, the Ranskahovs believed him.

The Ranskahovs had a meeting with Wilson Fisk on top of a building along with Fisk's other associates, Madame Gao, Leland Owlsley and Nobu. The Ranskahov brothers were insulted when James Wesley came in Fisk's place, claiming Fisk was too busy to attend; Ranskahov angrily called Wesley a lapdog. When Wesley asked why the Ranskahov's payment was short, they explained that a masked man had attack their men and freed the girls they were transporting. Madame Gao asked them if the man had taken the girls for himself but they explained that he had not. Although Madame Gao questioned Barrett's claims, in the end, the Ranskahov brothers were able to convince the rest of the group that Barrett was to be trusted and he was allowed to continue his work for their organisation. With his broken nose now bandaged, Barrett later met with a group of small-time arms dealers in a darkened alley where he purchased a box of handguns which he intended to sell himself to assassins hired by either the Ranskahovs or their employer Wilson Fisk.

Kidnapping of a young boy
To find the masked man, the Russians kidnapped a young boy intending to sell him. Ranskahov and his men beat up the boy's father before putting the child in their van and driving away, leaving the father too badly injured to move. The Ranskahov's set up a false location of the boy for the Man in the Mask to follow, allowing them to attack him and beat him nearly to death. The man escaped and had his injuries treated, so the Ranskahovs sent Semyon to try and find him.

Semyon knocked on the door of Claire Temple's Apartment; Claire Temple did not answer until the masked man had a chance to hide. Seymon asked Temple if she had seen a masked man and told his story about the theft at the bodega; Temple said she knew or heard nothing and closed the door. Semyon began running down the stairs, speaking Russian on the phone. The masked man realized that Seymon did not believe Temple. He then dropped a fire extinguisher on his head, knocking him unconscious. The masked man and Santino took Semyon to the roof of the building and tied him up. Here he hang for unconscious for multple minutes, while Claire Temple and the masked man discuss why she helped him. Claire Temple was given a white mask to hide her face from Semyon.

Semyon awakened and noticed the masked man and a women wearing a white mask standing in front of him. He was told that he had to answer some questions and the every lie he gave would be noticed. Even though he was warned he still answered the first question with a lie, for which he recieved a punch. He then answered the next few questions with the truth, for which he still recieved a punch. After finishing his story, he pushed the masked man to keep on hitting him, saying that he will just be replaced if he dies. Before recieving the hits Temple gave the masked man advice to stab him in trigeminal nerve. After being painfully stabbed, the masked man places Semyon on the edge of the roof. This scared him enough to finally gave the location of the boy they had kidnapped. He then started to laugh, taunting the masked man that they will be waiting for him and kil both him and the kid. This angered the masked man enough to push Semyon from the roof. Semyon landed in the dumpster below, severely injuring him to the point of near-death but not killing him.

Attack of the Masked Man
"Tell Mr. Fisk, that if he wants a pound of flesh, he can come here and carve it himself." "This is an offer, not an order. The choice of how we proceed is yours."

- Vladimir Ranskahov and James Wesley

The masked man once again attacked the Russian mob in one of the brothers' factories. They escaped and reunited at their base and were confronted by James Wesley, who came to give them the assets of the recently killed Prohaszka, making the distribution infrastructure doubled. Wesley mocked the pair for not being able to defeat the man in the mask. The brothers were offered a deal in which Wilson Fisk would take over control of their business. While Anatoly did consider the offer, Vladimir considered the deal to be an insult to them; he chose to break Wesley's number one rule not to mention Fisk's name when refusing his offer.

Kidnapping of Claire Temple
The pair decided to focus their efforts on tracking down the masked man, starting by visiting their former henchman, Semyon, who was in the hospital after being dropped off a roof by the masked man. They gave him a shot of epinephrine; when he awoke, they asked him if he could give them any information to help them find their enemy. They learnt the address of a woman who had been with the masked man. When they arrived they found her apartment empty, but they were able to beat up her neighbour until he revealed her location.

Claire Temple was taken to the Veles Taxi Garage under orders of Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov, in order to obtain any information that she may know about the man in the black mask. Her kidnappers, Sergei and Dmitry, tortured and hit her, but she tried to resist. Sergei told Temple that Dmitry would stop hitting her if she revealed who the man in the mask was, but she told them that she simply did not know who he was. Sergei hit with a baseball bat, seemingly going to attack her, but he broke the window of the taxi right behind Temple, making her scream in horror. Temple, scared, told them that the man in the mask never told her his name. Dmitry stopped Sergei from hitting Temple with the bat, reminding him that Vladimir had ordered them not to kill Temple until she revealed everything she knew. Sergei then told Temple that torturing her was not giving him any pleasure, but he had been ordered to do it, so he needed her to answer the questions, or he would break her piece by piece.

Suddenly, all the lights at the garage went off, and Sergei ordered one of his men, Mikhail, to check what happened. Mikhail was then attacked by the man in the mask, who had come to rescue Temple, and he easily knocked him down. Temple began to laugh and taunted Sergei, telling him to ask the name to the man in the mask himself now. The man attacked and disarmed another Russian thug, and Temple hid under a taxi as soon as the Russians began to shoot blindly. The man continued to knock the Russians down until only Sergei was left. Sergei took Temple as a hostage hoping to escape, but the man in the mask ordered him to let her go. Sergei threatened to kill Temple if he could not escape, but the man in the mask told him that if he did not put his gun down and let Temple go, he would never be able to hold anything with his hand again. The man then attacked Sergei, quickly liberating Temple and breakin Sergei's arm in the process. He also taunted Sergei asking him how it felt to be in pain and afraid just like Temple had been because of him, until Temple hit Sergei with the baseball he had been using. Temple began to cry, and the man in the mask embraced her to calm her down, as he had rescued her and he was there for her.

Assassination of Anatoly Ranskahov
"Фиск вышел из укрытия . Мы должны его помощь брата." "Я не преклоняюсь перед этим человеком! " "Тогда я пойду и лук для нас обоих."

- Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov

When the Ranskahovs discovered that their men had been attacked and their position in Wilson Fisk's organisation was compromised due to the embarrassment of being defeated by the masked man yet again, Anatoly again suggested that they should take Fisk's offer, which Vladimir aggressively protested. Anatoly told him that whether he agreed or not he would go to Fisk alone and bow for the pair of them. Although he was still unhappy about the idea, Vladimir chose to side with his brother and allowed him to go to Fisk alone.

Ranskahov arrived at the restaurant where Wilson Fisk was having dinner with Vanessa Marianna; he stormed past Fisk's guards and yelled at him that he and his brother had chosen to accept his offer. Fisk seemingly did not listen and swiftly exited the restaurant with Marianna, telling Ranskahov that he would speak to him about the matter at another time and whispering something to Wesley on his way out. James Wesley then ordered Ranskahov to wait in the car to speak to Fisk about the deal.

As they drove along in Fisk's limo, Ranskahov explained to James Wesley that his intentions were simply to inform Fisk that his offer had been accepted and he was sorry for causing him embarrassment, which Wesley seemed to accept as a valid apology. At one point Wesley answered his phone and told the person on the other end that Ranskahov was indeed sitting on the passenger side, although he did not explain to Ranskahov the meaning of the call or who he had spoken to. Without warning, Wilson Fisk pulled Ranskahov from the car and began brutally beating him. Ranskahov attempted to defend himself, taking a knife and cutting at Fisk's suit, but Fisk was protected by kevlar armour hiding under his clothing and responded by breaking Ranskahov's arm before throwing him to the ground and continuing to punch him. Eventually Ranskahov could no longer defend himself against his much larger and more aggressive enemy and, despite Ranskahov pleading for James Wesley to intervene, Fisk put Anatoly's head between the door of the car and proceeded to bash it repeatedly with the door until it was removed from his body, leaving Ranskahov as nothing more than a bloody headless corpse lying in the dirt.

Anatoly's death drove Vladimir to declare war on the masked man when he found a mask under Anatoly's coat, though it was actually planted there by Wilson Fisk. Vladimir would also declare war on Fisk when he thought that the masked man and Fisk were working together.