The emerging phenomenon of Moshkow&#x27;s lib.ru is one of the most oldest and popular free self-publishing websites in the world, samlib.ru, where many authors are actually getting published by publishing houses. This is how &quot;samizdat&quot; works today.<p>What author misses is that Russian pirate libraries are based outside Russia for quite some time. The infamous <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lib.rus.ec" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lib.rus.ec</a> was once the effort of a couple running cafe in Quito, Ecuador. Its freely accessible fork maintained as <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flibusta.is" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flibusta.is</a> has sort of Icelandic scent. Both run Drupal.<p>What is even more interesting - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alib.ru" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alib.ru</a> provides free access to acquiring cheep rare and vintage physical Russian editions from enormous amount of small second-hand booksellers. I can name nothing like that in the UK.