DMCA-Ignored hosting is not a marketing label, it is a jurisdictional posture. Russia works for paste site operators because Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Part IV (Articles 1225 to 1551) governs how copyright disputes are handled domestically, and that statute does not import US-style notice-and-takedown. A rightsholder cannot send an email and force your paste site project offline. They must file in Moscow City Court (Moskovsky Gorodskoy Sud), name the specific work, and obtain an order under Russian Civil Code Part IV. Russian copyright enforcement runs through Article 144.1 of the Civil Procedure Code and the Federal Anti-Piracy Law (Federal Law 187-FZ). Roskomnadzor administers the takedown list, but the trigger is a Moscow City Court ruling - not a private foreign DMCA notice.
For the paste site use case, the practical implications are concrete. Your project faces indiscriminate DMCA bots crawling paste indexes for code fragments that quote copyrighted software. Under Russian Civil Code Part IV, none of those rightsholder workflows reach our infrastructure unless they translate, file, and litigate in Russia. That process takes months and costs the complainant real money. Most automated DMCA pipelines are built around the assumption of a free, frictionless takedown rail. Russia provides one.
Moscow gives 25 to 35 ms to other CIS capitals, 40 ms to Helsinki, 50 ms to Warsaw and 130 ms to New York. For a paste site workload that needs to feel native to European and CIS users, Moscow is one of the few locations that combines the legal posture with the network performance.