The real mod's name is penek, and he hasn't been a mod for over a year.
Even then, I doubt he'd know anything.
Penek did post about the situation of BTC-E few days back though he admitted that he is no longer directly linked with btc-e.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=62573;sa=showPosts If some Russian member could translate. I don't understand everything by Google translate. He hinted that admins were in process to transfer servers.