No, I doubt that. The Russian government has been blacklisting cryptocurrency-related sites and exchanges for at least 5-6 years. They have blocked access to hundreds of sites, so Binance is in good company. Site operators usually just spin up mirror sites to prevent downtime and loss of access.

In this case, they didn't even block access. They just added Binance to the official blacklist. You still don't even need a VPN to access Binance from Russia. That's why nobody even noticed this until now. This all happened 3 months ago, in June.