> Why are they doing the government's work for them, and blocking Russia? In order to avoid outgoing mail to Russian mail providers from being blocked. I.e.,

> Why are they doing the government's work for them, and blocking Russia? In order to avoid outgoing mail to Russian mail providers from being blocked. I.e., if the government blocks them, then BOTH Russian and Western users suffer (Russians because they can't access the service without technical tricks, and both because they can't send mail to Russian users of other mail providers). If they block Russian user signups themselves or can otherwise kinda-sorta-legitimately claim that they don't have Russian users, then only Russian users who don't have a VPN suffer from being unable to access the service.