The history of Russian anonymous forums is rich in dramas, deaths, conflicts and holywars. So, at the moment, we can distinguish several major Russian imageboards.
1. 2ch.hk/b (Also Sosach, eaepy 2ch.so, earlier 2-ch.ru). It's largest russian and european imageboard. It is the Russian analogue of the 4chan. To seem like a person who understands the history of Russian boards, remember: 2ch.hk is not true 2ch/Dvach (2ch.ru). This site is only the image successor of Dvach. 2ch.hk is very strictly moderated, has a lot of unoffical rules for each board, which is completely different from that of Dvach. Cooperation with the federal goverment is widespread (to the extent that in September 2016 2ch.hk was sold to the mail company ru controlled by an oligarch - a friend of Putin). Our admin is good man. The ideologically loyal successor to Dvach is Nullchan (0chan).
2. 0chan.hk/b (early 0chan.ru, now 0chan.pl/b ). 0chan was the second most popular Russian imageboard. At the close, she had about 10 million posts in /b/. This imageboard was a strong competitor to 2ch.hk; as a result, after a large-scale DDOS attack hosted by the administrator of 2ch.hk, it was closed in 2014. It was reborn on April 1, 2017, but was again closed a year later. After closing, was created a clone - 0chan.pl/b/. It's similliar.
3 iichan.hk/b . It's oldest working imageboard. The second most popular (not including the Nullchan). It features extremely strict moderation and a strong focus on aniye. Originally created as a moderated alternative to Dvach in 2007 (Dvach was created in 2006), but by 2009 it had become a very special imageboard, unfriendly to newfags. They like tohou project very much. The archive is preserved http://2007.ii.yakuji.moe .
4. dobrochan.ru/b .Initially, the meme of iichan (iichan was called Dobrochan (Dobro - good in russian) (Dvach is an evil chan)), now it is an anime imageboard with a slightly more liberal administration than in iichan.
5. Many small imageboards.
We wrote magazines ( most popular is http://coyc.net/noobtype.php ), books, studentbooks on lucid dreams and a lot of interesting things. If this interests you, I’ll talk more about the history and culture of Russian imageboards.