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On an October morning in , in a town on the outskirts of Moscow, senior police investigator Evgeniya Shishkina was leaving home when she was ambushed by a gunman. Lieutenant Colonel Shishkina took a swing at her assailant. He slipped, but shot her in the stomach. As she lay on the floor he got up and shot her in the neck. Russian police and an investigation by the BBC allege the shooter was hired on an illegal drug trading platform known as Hydra, by a Russian hacker who ran one of its online drug shops. As Russian police continue investigating the murder of their colleague, the sheer size and reach of Hydra, which serves up drugs to Russians and post-Soviet republics, has come under the spotlight. But it is also a dark web drug enterprise like no other. Hydra has a whopping 2. The largest Western dark web market, AlphaBay, which closed in , was thought to have , registered users at its peak. This dwarfs its dark web counterparts in the West. Hydra represents a new kind of dark web marketplace. But there are innovations. Hydra has a strict way of doing business and code of conduct overseen by a central hub. While in other markets vendors pay once to open an account, on Hydra every one of its estimated 5, shops has to pay a monthly rent. Trusted Sellers must have racked up at least 1, transactions and customer disputes should not exceed seven percent of the total number of orders per month. Hydra has its own team of chemists and human guinea pigs to test each product and medics on standby to give safety advice. There is a subforum where these test results are posted, complete with graphs, analysis, and photos. Anyone trying to pass oregano as high-grade chronic will get kicked off the site. No fentanyl is allowed, and neither are weapons, hitmen, viruses or porn, although drugs, fake passports, dodgy SIM cards, and counterfeit cash are sold. On the whole, these rules appear to be obeyed, although the investigation into Lt. Dead drops from Russian drug web marketplaces were first reported in , but under the auspices of Hydra the system has proliferated. These dead drops can be anywhere from tree hollows, street bushes, round the back of apartment blocks or electrical transformer boxes, in crowded public locations, near metro stations or local forests. On completing the online transaction, buyers are sent coordinates, photos, and directions where to find the buried treasure. For example: go to the north entrance of the park and look under the third tree on your left. After going on this little quest, buyers have got 24 hours to confirm they have the goods and leave a review. And with business booming, Hydra has created a whole new profession for young Russians. They in turn get paid via the same anonymous means. Once they have hid 6, rubles worth of treasures, they can start earning. Galina was paid commission depending on the weight and type of drugs on each drop. But there were times she did 30 or At first she worked with hash, MDMA, and amphetamines, then almost exclusively with mephedrone, a drug that has become increasingly popular in Russia over the last decade. Take it home, re-pack it there. This is a very long and boring exercise, but I could decide how many drops of what weight I wanted to do and it was very convenient. Usually I would make 10 drops of one gram, 10 of two grams, and go lay them out, leaving the rest till next time. As soon as someone makes an order, they get the GPS coordinates. The second task of a dropper is taking a photo and writing a description and uploading the goods onto the shop site. Ten packages usually took her 30 minutes. But since then it has been updated and revised. The bible advises droppers to use encrypted phones so police cannot track previous drops and map-downloading tools to mark drops without having to go online. Unsurprisingly it tells grasshopper-level droppers to avoid drawing attention to themselves. It would be weird if someone sees an office manager crawling around the bushes. Bad places are near schools, cemeteries and police stations because they can draw unwanted attention , apartment block courtyards because the gates might be closed when the customer gets there , and even gutters unless packages are waterproofed. You can either go for a walk, looking for places to hide the stuff, making drops and taking photos as you go. The speed at which you do your job is not as important as efficiency. Lawyer Arseny Levinson runs the legal aid service Hand-Help. According to his analysis of Russian Ministry of Justice statistics, more than half of those convicted of drug trafficking in were years old and students. He says this is a lot to do with Hydra droppers. Yandex is a big online food order and delivery service in Russia. He decided to become a dropper after leaving the army and spotted the advert to be a kladman while buying drugs online. At one point he said he was doing 70 drops a day, using the money to fit out his apartment with brand new furniture. Namely adrenaline. That feeling when you balance all the time on the verge of being caught. Because of his love of forests and parks, he used those to bury his drug stashes at night when it was quiet. But all the evidence points to something of an online takeover. Shortis said Hydra is a more multifaceted and harder to contain beast than other online drug market sites. This means that whilst vendors in the West are often thought of as one person or a small group, vendors we see listed on Hydra are much more likely to be representative of a larger network of actors. Shortis said that Hydra is a lot more visible to police, but that does not make it easier to investigate. Petersburg delivering or collecting packages makes the Russian online drug trade much more visible than its western counterpart. This is very different from western cryptomarkets where the privacy of the delivery method mitigates public awareness of online drug markets. With every new shift in the criminal world comes a new bunch of parasites. For droppers who either get tracked by seekers as they make drops around town or whose hiding places are easily found by someone on the lookout for stashes, seekers can mean the sack. Seekers love the long Russian winters, when the snow reveals a myriad of hiding places across towns, cities, parks, and forests. Over the years the group has been accused of kidnapping addicts, chaining them up to make them go cold turkey, mob ties, and racism and xenophobia towards immigrants. But now CWD is refocusing its aim. Before when we were dealing with heroin, of course it was mainly gypsies and Tajiks, and every drug user was a seller as well. Now it can be Russians, anyone. A November police operation which netted nearly half a ton of various substances failed to catch even one store proprietor—just seven couriers. That brings us to another interesting question. Given what we know about Russian hackers and the Russian mafia , not to mention corruption within the DEA in the Silk Road case, could it be Hydra has friends in high places? But such cases are rare. We keep hearing cases about this, for example in Khakassia. After allegedly uncovering the scheme, year-old Yuri Zaitsev was himself charged with taking payoffs from drug dealers. When one of their dealers was caught, they personally intervened to have the charges dropped. For example, last July it was reported that two police chiefs were arrested for running an online drug ring in Moscow. And those are just a few such cases we know about. Russia now has more prisoners serving time for drugs than any other crime , a slot formerly occupied by murder. He got caught, as usual, by one stupid mistake: one day, he forgot to turn on the equivalent of a VPN or Tor on his laptop, so they traced his IP address and slapped handcuffs on him as he was boarding a flight to Kazakhstan. Still, quite enterprising for a year-old. There are two reasons Russia keeps spawning top cybercrooks like Misha. The first is that Russia has a lot of very smart, educated people. Russian universities produce great scientists, engineers, programmers, and mathematicians. The second is that the government actually uses hackers as privateers to do its bidding, which is why the same names pop up in cybercrime and national security investigations. Go, steal for Mother Russia! RAMP the Russian Anonymous Marketplace arrived on the scene in , building a platform where instead of messaging users back and forth you could simply browse the catalogue and press buy. Unlike the libertarian rhetoric bandied around on Silk Road, RAMP refused to support any agenda, knowing what happens to such outspoken parties in Russia. And unlike Silk Road, instead of taking commissions from each sale it charged every prospective drug merchant a flat tax for doing business on its platform. Hydra was born in as a merger of two smaller forums, Legal RC and Way Away, both specializing in synthetics. According to an investigation last year by Moscow-based online newspaper Lenta. Legal RC and Way Away were the last ones standing, and they had to stick together if they wanted to survive. But RAMP had major weaknesses from the outset. One, its refusal to commit to anything political extended to a ban on advertising. Hydra meanwhile had chemists working for its shops cooking up these novel substances, and a direct line to precursor suppliers in China, allowing it to corner the market in poorer areas where synthetics are more popular. 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Cocaine has been coming in through St. Petersburg, allegedly protected by powerful figures , since at least the 90s, although its high price has put it out of reach of most Russians. Meanwhile, a heroin pipeline was set up from the poppy fields of Afghanistan through the ex-Soviet republic of Tajikistan: kilos of heroin were hidden onboard military planes, then distributed through the Tajik diaspora. Now, the rise of new synthetic drugs and online drug markets such as Hydra has meant just about anyone can set up shop as a drug dealer. Three years ago Galina decided to progress from dropper to shop owner. But where do the shops get their supplies? Cathinones and other synthetics are now massive in Russia, and Hydra sells do-it-yourself spice and mephedrone making kits, along with the raw ingredients imported from China. The chemists find what they need through their own channels; I only allocate them funds. 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Finally in January of this year, after nearly two years of appeals and taking her case to the media, Oxana and her family managed to bring it back down to six. Like in America, convicts are used for cheap manual labour. Overpacked cells and non-existent healthcare is a great way to catch tuberculosis. Torture is common. Oxana showed me a recent photo where Sergey looks skinny and pale. He works six days a week sewing backpacks. So much grief and tears! New recruits can always be found. In January the MVD announced that a special unit would be formed to fight online drug trafficking. Did taking out Pablo Escobar lead to a drug-free Colombia? Hell no. Could Hydra be the future of drug dealing? Customers must go out into a city or countryside and search for their purchase whilst avoiding raising the suspicions of the police or other members of the public. 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