"I felt like I was going to die," the cryptocurrency streamer known as Chancers says. "I lost a lot of money in a short period of time. Around $2.4m (£1.9m) of my cryptocurrency was wiped out." ...

But there were also what Hecker describes as “chancers, even people with criminal records” who came to Russia “hoping at best to wipe the slate clean or, at least, to find refuge”.