None of this happened in a vacuum and while I do not automatically subscribe to this particular 'app', I do not dismiss it purely based on the messenger.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
Naturally, others may feel a tinge of 'national fervor' and proclaim that no one tells me what to say, while immediately noticing that those that do not toe the official government line are brought to heel via more subtle means of coercion[1]. Those typically ask questions along the lines of whether I somehow equate US with Russia or China and suggest that , clearly, this is false equivalency. To those people I ask, how so? If we are all expected to toe the line, is it false at all?
In short, I am not dismissing what you are saying, but how exactly is it that different from US? There are topics that were entirely verbotten not that long ago ( Foreign Policy discussions were fairly carefully left undebated with exceptions of professional diplomats ) and even today there are topics you simply cannot discuss openly, because you will be automatically banned/shadow banned/restricted/ridiculed in the digital world if you are lucky and doxxed in real world along with other nasty real world consequences if you are not.
If anyone lives in a sobering reality, it is anyone looking at the world through the lens of an alien, who is slowly wondering if he belongs to the same species.
edit: changed professional diplomats line; reads a little better
Russia have a lot of difficulties with transferring money to and from abroad so it is kind of "natural" way for them to go into "promoting" something that can't be that easily controlled and tracked (yet).