> Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv,

It's funny how all Ukrainian criminals are Russians. /s

> A 38-year-old Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv, Ukraine.

That tracks. How many Russian cybercriminals can you think of who were arrested in Russia? Hence why a lot of malware checks for your keyboard's language - so the payload doesn't deploy in Russia, which _would_ actually get you arrested.

But if you're targeting people outside Russia, you're golden.

As for why he's in Kyiv? Maybe his girlfriend is from there. Maybe he prefers Kyiv to Moscow or whichever oblast he's from. Maybe he's hiding from the Russian draft?

No it’s to do with censorship of Pooh in china.

The article says that that post was likely a fake post created by Toha to throw off authorities:

>It seems plausible that the BMW ad invoking Toha’s email address and the name and phone number of a Russian citizen was simply misdirection on Toha’s part — intended to confuse and throw off investigators.

The “dark web” is a journalistic (AFAICT) coinage arising from a confusion between two terms: a “darknet” (antonym: “clearnet”) is a network that traverses the Internet in such a way that the Internet’s routing infrastructure can’t see the ultimate destination (Tor, but also DN42, your work VPN, etc.); the “deep web” is the part of the web that’s not accessible to search engines and thus only really used by those who already know it exists (Tor hidden services, pirate libraries, private torrent trackers, but also every other registration-gated forum and arguably even Facebook Marketplace—the term is from a more innocent time with much fewer walled gardens).

I assume they just continue living where they lived before?

> Aren't there plenty of places out of reach for Europol and the FBI, etc.?

There are a few problems with this question, but lets start with

Where is "out of reach for Europol and the FBI"?