Comment by crossroadsguy

Anybody affected by this or not, at this point I’d really recommend moving your domains away ASAP from such unstable leadership anyway. Just read in the comments and see how this person seems to be taking such critical decisions at whims comment by comment. They seem to have simply lost the plot. Tomorrow it can simply be you at the receiving end unless you change your passport to where this company is based (not sure even that will work) - assuming they’d give a clean chit to at least that country.

PS. Or maybe Namecheap is making a smart preemptive business move. It’s a good possibility that very soon Russians might not be able to pay them for renewals (at least for sometime) and then when they start letting the domains expire, and rightly so, they do not want to deal with “please be considerate”.