Somewhat regrettably given the connotations also associated, cryptocurrency. In countries where there are legal, regulated exchanges, this pretty much meets the requirements there.

Why regrettably? Also, crypto doesn't mandate anonymity if you go by the original Satoshi whitepaper. You'll have to specifically recommend an anonymous ecosystem like Monero. And at that point, it's like regrettably mentioning American dollars because the Ruble has bad connotations.

> transfer money relatively anonymously nowadays

Monero and that's pretty much it

Russian banks are managing deposits in etherium, and if you want you could send money over in alt-coins, bounce it around through other alt coins some and then retrieve it elsewhere, issue is that you will lose a fair bit on the exchanges with the rates, transaction fees etc

Also, you will need atleast a visa/mastercard internationally enabled card associated to a bank to your name to do any of that. Do that, or buy it personally/insitu from someone

Money order in post office / banks / WU. The place generating the order will usual check your ID but they do not require you to include that info on what's sent to the recipient.

Zelle / venmo are better in cases where you are withing their account limits AFAIK. I'm not aware of either of them having the history of seizing user funds that Paypal has.

Venmo is owned by PayPal and will freeze your account just like PayPal.

I can't believe I didn't know that. Thank you for calling it out.