As you correctly noted, the Russian locale has some problems in terms of posts, but it cannot be said that there are problems with merit. In the Russian locale, there are still 3 active Merit Sources, with a total of 2 000 Merit available for distribution every month. This is a lot, given that posting in this place has been greatly reduced. Therefore, some Merit Sources do not always give away their 30-day quota in full for a simple reason: there is simply nowhere to distribute them, unless you increase the average value of the given merit per post. In the Russian locale, there has always been the most merit sources and the most distributed merit, among all locales.

I saw this and therefore redirected some of my resources to locales where the situation is somewhat worse, for example, to Turkish or Indonesian locales, where, in my opinion, one more merit source was missing.