Potentially the .ru scripts could rewrite or censor part of the page or redirect you somewhere, but cannot modify the page permanently. Nothing really dangerous or privacy-invasive though, unlees you're the type to fall for primitive phishing attacks.
I see this as a none-issue. Block the counter/event domains via an adblocker or dns and nothing goes to Russia an nothing gets modified or censored.
Using a Pixel 6 with Graphene here with google services in their sandbox. It's pretty neat, especially with apps like Firefox+uBlock and GrayJay, which let me also block 99% of ads, which was very important to me. I have not had trouble with any banking apps either.
Came here to say Julia Stiles but you totally beat me to it! I cannot stand any film she is in either. It's really hard to describe, but your description is spot-on. It's like an empty husk with makeup has been made to act.
Bazzite is stuffed full of polish, especially the Gnome variant and, little known to me at the time, they have a whole set of non-gaming-related tools in the background for developers who use containers (distrobox, podman etc), which is exactly what I use for my job.
I was so impressed that I have installed it as my main OS on my laptop and have replaced SteamOS with it on my SteamDeck.
This distro is one of the best I have used. It is definitely one to keep an eye on.
This is the correct answer. My preference is the GNOME version. Almost all my games just work out of the box.