China has its own internet firewall and Russia currently has a lot of sanctions against it so this may well be the problem. (The fact that you can get through with a VPN also indicates this)
Joe W name is still shown as one of the moderators so you should be OK. (The forum uses Clean Talk as there spam filter)
Hopefully you will be back on soon.

Bill
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