Quote Originally Posted by cegorach1
I know it is true for Russia, about Slovakia I have no idea. In Poland it doesn't appear at all.
Rather surprised that you think it is true for Russia. In my experience, it's no more prevalent than teenage gangs in Western Europe. Children in Russia are still pretty well behaved - it's when they get drafted (or drop out to avoid the draft) into the army that they turn brutalised and nasty.

St Petersburg has a real problem with skinhead gangs in their early twenties, unemployed and recently released from the purgatory of the service, but children - not to my knowledge or that of any of my friends and in-laws (who stretch from Petersburg and Moscow over to Perm and Irkutsk).

Maybe you are thinking of Byelorus? I don't know that country so well, and it's a lot poorer.