Don't be sorry. There is absolutely no evidence or proof that DDOS "attacks" are coming from Russia. Just a con-venient theory. Maybe the network needs to mature a lot?
This. The network needs to be able to resist such attacks, so in some way they're helping it. It's the same with all P2P networks (Gnutella, BitTorrent, eDonkey). There are huge attacks everyday but the end users don't even notice them.