>But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia.

And that is how you make the Kremlin change their mind.

>Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week.

The worst repression in the Soviet Union was not Communism. The worst repression was the Russian repression of minorities and non-Russian Soviet states.