Russia has a federal data protection law called FZ-152 («On Personal Data») that prohibits transferring personal data of Russian citizens to servers outside of Russia without explicit consent. Think of it as Russia’s version of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) or the European GDPR — except with even stricter rules about where data must physically reside.

Google Analytics sends data to servers in the US, which violates this law for Russian citizens. The fines go up to 6 million rubles (~$65,000), and they’re very real — the Russian government has been actively enforcing them.

So for Russian citizens, this site uses Yandex Metrica — a Russian analytics service that keeps all data within the Russian Federation. For everyone else, it’s good old Google Analytics.