Unfortunately I don't think this means they will stop trolling the actual internet, even if they block it from their own country

I am not a fan of millions of Russian citizens being in a walled garden of censorship however

Reposting my reply to someone else on this topic for visibility:

The Russian scammers are using a ton of proxies and VPNs. Unfortunately, this change will not affect them unless the Russian government completely removes access to the global Internet, and even then, the corruption is so deep that many officials will be selling access to the global Internet to their friends or people with with money.

Russian scammers and social media manipulators are here to stay, likely because they're largely state run initiatives and they'll still have access to the global Internet.

What this does is keep the normal Russians insulated from the rest of the world and unable to coordinate outside of their own country, where everything they do is even more tightly controlled by the government.

1- All countries have trolls, in one degree or another.
2- That will also affect the Russian population, who will become even more isolated and powerless.

True online game is no fun without someone shouting cyka blyat. Lol