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Russian criminal slang comes from the Hebrew, once in Odessa and other places of Jewish settlement in the Russian Empire were formed, in fact the first, organized ethnic crime groups. The "Manual on Police Operation" circa 1892 reads: "Among the criminals used a multitude of words of Jewish origin." So how the great Jewish culture "enriched" the Russians? Bothat' - from hebrew בטא (to chit-chat). Same with ביטוי bituy. Fenya - אופן - ophen - a way to bituy beofen - talking using feyna - criminal slang expressed in a special way, incomprehensible to goys. Frajer (sucker) - from Yiddish Frej freedom, meaning one who is not in jail or ghetto. For the Jew the criminal world is divided into Jews - criminals, thieves and goyim (frajers) - citizens, not belonging to the Jewish world. Jew is allowed to rob and cheat frajer - a simpleton, who can be fooled - in this role term "frajer" is used in modern Hebrew. Ma ani, frajer? - What I'm a goy?Blatnoy - one having permission from the corrupt official to scam goyim - i.e. a permit from the right person (from Yiddish Die Blatte, leaf of paper, a note). In the slang of Jews, blatnoy is one belonging to the Jewish criminal world. Saher-Maher - fraud scheme (from Hebrew סחר מחר, trade combinations). Hevra - organized crime group (from Hebrew חברה, chevra - a company, firm). Hevre - boys, bros, lads, our people. From the same root havyra - apartment. Ksiva - from hebrew כתיבה (ktiva - a forged document: in the Ashkenazi pronunciation ת sounds like S). Bugor (from hebrew בוגר Boger - an adult) - brigadier. Athas (from febrew עתוד atud, Yiddish. atus - attention), marviher - skilled criminal (Yiddish מרויחר). Chmo - penis (from Yiddish schmo/schmuck), potzan - prick (from yiddish putz).