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The creator of Sci-Hub is Alexandra Elbakyan and she is from Kazakhstan. According to Wikipedia [0] she spend 1 year working for a Moscow company, but that's it. I wouldn't classify it as a Russian service. There is a nice russian service for paywalled ebooks and articles called LibGen [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

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At one point in time she banned the whole of Russia from accessing sci-hub after she felt that some Russian scientists had been insulting when they named a parasitic insect after her. Late last year Russia banned isps from accessing sci-hub.

It may or may not be hosted in Russia, but I agree it is not "Russian".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sci-hub-blocked-in-russi...

i would still use it if it was a russian service

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