Reading from other sources, it is saying Russia wants its peeps on domestic servers in case the west cuts THEM off. That way they could still communicate with each other. Russia is saying it has no plans to sever ties from the global net though, just to be ready in case the western side does. You can be on all domestic servers but still have all the com lines open. Not saying I trust that Russia won't ever alter course but these articles like you linked seem to be highly clickbaity with spin.