Practicies of Interaction with Urban Enviroment of Cryptomarkets Users in Russia

Student: Kvasnyuk Denis

Supervisor: Kirill A. Maslinsky

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

In recent years, the system of delivering drugs has evolved, changing the communication type into anonymous and going online. Cryptomarkets represent a web site located in “hidden web” and requesting a special software to enter it. The main aim of cryptomarkets is to provide safe communication and trade platform for people, who use and sell drugs. However, Russian case may vary from western one, even though communication occurs online, delivery goes into offline. Because of these users transform their patterns of risk reduction, also creating regular practicies in urban space. The aim of these work is to explore, how interaction with urban enviroment influences users' risk reduction patterns. As the result, there has been classified stratigies of risk reduction and exlored their link to the different factor of urban enviroment.

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