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Russia has been blocked for spam for a very very long time. Pre-dating the Ukrainian invasion. Traffic from Russia was exclusively spam and bots. I think you're the first legit user who has said anything in about 5-6 years (I think I blocked Russia and a few others around 2016-2017).
Ukraine has been on a "must do a CAPTCHA" for years too, it too is a source of spam and bots especially from their hosting services there. However there were real users there too, so that's not a full block it's just a superficial block that still blocks the majority of bots. Some spam users get through, in fact nearly all the spam that gets onto the site can be traced to India and Ukraine (used to be Vietnam but I blocked that totally too).
Please do use a VPN. Any VPN that shows you as not being in Russia will be fine, I'm not blocking VPNs and apparently spammers don't even bother trying to do that.
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Mukashi
Velocio
@Breso
Hi guys, it has been a while but I just tried to read the forum from Russia and it seems like without the use of a VPN I don’t have the necessary permissions, why is that?
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