This seems like a common knee-jerk reaction lately - if something comes out of Russia, it must be the government doing its authoritarian stuff. But you are reading it backwards. Russian government doesn't need any "excuse" to block something - if they want to, they just go ahead and do it. Instead, it is rambler that is using its connections to government as a credible threat to extort bigger settlement.

> Sberbank, the parent company of Rambler

Sberbank is not the parent company of rambler, they have recently bought 46.5%.

Sberbank is also behind recent Nginx extortion raids.

Any proof?

Why would the Moscow want to prevent gaming fans from seeing their countrymen do well in fortnight or whatever? What's so suspicious about greedy actions by a company working for a corrupt regime that you suspect an ulterior motive?

Russian government more than once voiced concerns over gamers doing things online without government involvement and control. Sberbank is not just greedy business, it's greedy only when it serves Kremlin.

It's possible but, applying Occam's razor, it's not super uncommon these days to have IP holders manage to censor websites. Given the amount of money involved in those broadcasting licenses I can definitely imagine that they would seek to block twitch pirates heavy-handedly, with or without Kremlin support.

"It is in Russia, it's more like an excuse to block Twitch"

Any proof?