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Apparently the Russian government doesn't see them as a threat of any serious sort. Otherwise I bet they'd have been operating a lot shorter than DPR's original silk road.
'It’s more like traditional drug dealing with online support than a real full-fledged anonymous marketplace"

That's also how we had airbnb without airbnb before airbnb.

You just typed 'flats daily <city>' in the search engine, landed on some website with description of flats and a list of phones, agreed on terms and made the payment with cash when you arrived.

Martin, you appear hellbanned and also you greatly exaggerate the control of Russian authorities over their citizens. They often can't even figure out what city you are in. For years.

Soviet system fell apart for good (and bad).

"14,000 members"

Isn't that small time compared to Silk Road 1/2?