and they can't create anything new until we get an updated captcha system. You won't believe me, but they do this manually. Mostly, there are whole "villages" of low cost/high efficiency human work force. Lots and lots of illegal immigrants from countries like Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrg...
I'm afraid banning specific IP won't solve anything due to fact, that most of Russia (as well as Ukraine) uses DIP. For example: my ISP, Ukrtelecom, bought additional pool from GB. We have "global NAT". And there is no effort to change your client IP, if you want to. Most likely, russian I...