I'm trying to say that both things are happening, and that the firewalling is probably happening in order to prevent the DDOS that is being launched towards Russian IT infrastructure, together with trying to prevent the increased attacks.
To put in another perspective, nothing in Russian IT infrastructure has to change in order to control who sees what on the "Russian" internet. So if it was all about "controlling people's mind", then this would be overkill.
But if you're getting hit by constant attacks from outside the country, this move makes a lot of sense in order to stop the attack, although also overkill but if you're not very skilled, it would probably stop many attacks.
Seems a little suspicious for a 2 day old account. Almost like… propaganda