As a person from a Nordic country I used to buy games from Russia and activate them on Steam. Nowadays I play fewer games so I can afford to pay the full price

As a person from a Nordic country I used to buy games from Russia and activate them on Steam. Nowadays I play fewer games so I can afford to pay the full price of new titles, but in the past, I used to save 2/3 of the game's price by logging through a VPN from Russia and buying the game that way. Steam has said this kind of activity to be punishable and sometimes people get their account locked. However when you can save 40 euros on a game title by spending ten extra minutes on a VPN connection then it kind of makes it worth it. Gambling this way is also thrilling. It's a hard issue to address and ultimately there is no way Steam can effectively block out people from doing it. I could appeal any ban by saying that I visited Russia in person, bought the physical game there and activated it on a cafe or through $VPN_PROVIDER.