I am a native-born American citizen living in Russia.
The amount of grief that your solution causes me is significant. I'm a legitimate customer who does nothing fraudulent. However, whole swaths of the internet treat me as if I have leprosy just because my IP address is in Russia.
I don't know how to say this without coming off harsh, so I'll say it and ask you to use the principle of charity when reading it.
If the Russian state refuses to stamp out crime that is causing negative externalities, then people should rightly stop dealing with people inside Russia as a logical response.
Freight forwarders are how most of us outside of the US get stuff from companies that only ship to the US - There must be a market for such services that ship to Russia too.
