I think you’re vastly overstating the danger of travelling through Russia
Eh, a red passports in my pocket, along with a military id of same color say otherwise
But it doesn’t degrade performance for a seedbox. You connect to it and stream your files when you need them, it’s less hassle than if you download things to your own home. Doesn’t degrade performance for most private tasks to be honest.
Actually, this sounds like a one good use-case for VPS in Russia because I didn’t even know what a seedbox is. I have used transmission on a router solely for silent operation and only once encountered an ISP who limited bittorrent traffic, but then I just told them to fuck off and switched to a different one. It never crossed my mind that people might want a torrent box outside their country. Just use an encrypted connection to it, though, because who knows what the fuck is Russian(or your) government might be up to. Though I’d advice to consider one in Armenia, if possible. It’s close, but much more liberal and the internet speeds are just as good. Though computer part imports seem to be problematic in there so I’m not sure if there are any good providers.
Almost always left to the discretion of the ISPs when it comes to implementation
It’d be interesting to see how they actually implement this, as I couldn’t find much info. But the fact that this is passed down to ISP’s to implement and there are seemingly no strict rules gives a hope that there might be some leeway between different providers, and ones that don’t use it as a pretense to infringe on your privacy. But it’s sad to see that they are, too, going political with this.