I think it's more of an internet company trying to run a business in a country without respecting the law which applies to you if you do business there. This is in fact the case for many countries beside Russia and there is no valid reason for another country to allow a company, which is running operations from a country known to not respecting a persons privacy regardless of its citizenship, to run a business in your country without been able to protect your citizens.

Didn't you know that Silicon Valley has the moral high ground? Duh. Americans can do no wrong /s

Well, it all doesn't work like that. "Hey guys, nobody follows this law, so neither should we!" - Nope.

> it...doesn't work like that

That's exactly how it works in Russia.

Kind of. Except for when you get noticed or become too big to skip.

It can (and should) actually work like that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yick_Wo_v._Hopkins ("Racially discriminatory application of a racially neutral statute violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.")