The comments under the article are a special kind of braindead.

Shame to see this shit from torvalds

Man, I wish he'd leave the communication to someone else. He is so, so bad at it. And this isn't the first time

The way he attacks critics puts himself in a bad light. But much more importantly, I read this and am still unsure if he has administrative/legal reason, security reasons or political reasons...

If I'd work in Russian propaganda, I'd love this so much. Hope this will not cause disruption in the community.

Wow, some real clown behavior from Linus.

I'd really like to see the criteria for delisting people, though. As Russia is not the only one waging wars, there are worse countries out there. I guess it all boils down to Linus being from Finland.

the comments on the article started off pretty good but pretty quickly devolved into a cancerous combination of NAFO and Hasbara.

I was expecting an adequate response, but this... I'll just say I'm very disappointed.