FSB will hardly pursue VXer because, correct me, the case is a matter of MVD [DomAff]. But they also hardly will. Hunting people who work 9-18 an engineer with a hell of a low salary to buy the legal stuff [2-3 monthly wages as usual] is a job for private agencies. People who work for them are usually likely not to be hired anywhere else but to another such agency in case if one is to be fired.
Private agencies generally are at the beginning of hunting the users of the so-called "Illegal" Windows and other progams. Not because government had issued any act, but followed by the MS' initiative and an army of lawyers. It's known that Adobe, Corel and Microsoft are the most popular freeware now in Russia. Kinda "Good People Company Unlimited", nationwide, at homes and corporations. Just a year ago stands with a load full of disks labelled "The freshest Microsoft cracks", "Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and InDesign in one pack for $5!" were a legal, wide-spread and respectable business owned by "intellectuals". Thus, a path for greatest shadow data-mining ever taken in history is on a solid ground.
It also strucks if you see a Win-equipped PC used for a strategic performance. Making all these freewarez fail-safe needs superknowledge of how system wrx. But it's not the military who own the knowledge. In Russia, those ones are students (-:
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