The service I’m using removed its Russian endpoints shortly after the Ukraine conflict broke out.
I neither know nor care if they did so of their own volition or were forced to do so: either reason is a huge red flag NATO flag against being able to trust them.
You can use tor and specify the country of the exit node as Russia
That’s not advisable for hard anonymity because that lack of randomness in exit node location can help fingerprint you.
And if their goal is to view Russian geolocked content, it’s also not great, because most sites, especially the media streamy ones, block everything having to do with Tor. For viewing geolocked content, my advice is almost always to get a VPN going anywhere so your ISP with your personal info can’t see the traffic, and then torrent it.
plus tor is slow as fuck for straming/media
Yeah, tor is excellent for protection* but it’s also horrifically slow for low-security things.