Clearly some automated actions going on, here. I managed to ride the wave and raise coins at low cost pingpong-ing .... hoping for a russia boost later on.
I doubt it would make much difference to vertcoin even if Russia changes it's attitude to crypto. It's been pumped, probably by a group of people, and it's going to get dumped by the same people that pumped it. I think it's now unlikely to go anywhere but down from this point on.