Well I think its mostly both we, and the original meme, are mixing up two different things.
I assume, I think correctly, that if you're running some sort of propaganda network you do actually want to appear to be living in/coming from that part of the world. So therefore showing "bot" traffic from the Yandex ASN dropping and correlating that directly with "bot" accounts going silent is incorrect. That "bot" traffic is not the propaganda network, its mostly just Yandex's own web scraping bots (which again, anyone that uses Cloudflare and has managed bots on there would tell you)
Now if you want to say that the infrastructure lives there, and is using proxies, VPN etc to appear to come from somewhere in the USA, Poland, etc - then OK. But that's not what the original meme was attempting to describe.
I assume, I think correctly, that if you're running some sort of propaganda network you do actually want to appear to be living in/coming from that part of the world. So therefore showing "bot" traffic from the Yandex ASN dropping and correlating that directly with "bot" accounts going silent is incorrect. That "bot" traffic is not the propaganda network, its mostly just Yandex's own web scraping bots (which again, anyone that uses Cloudflare and has managed bots on there would tell you)
Now if you want to say that the infrastructure lives there, and is using proxies, VPN etc to appear to come from somewhere in the USA, Poland, etc - then OK. But that's not what the original meme was attempting to describe.