As long as you lie low, never speak to the press, and don't mine with too much equipment, a Russian's mining operation should be relatively anonymous to the government, except to some lower officials in the ministry required to regulate electricity.
If you don't mine with enough equipment then mining can be pretty useless, mining with enough equipment is pretty hard to hide, the average gear nowadays needs about 3kw with of power, I am inclined to think that this amount is pretty much the average consumption for most homes in Russia, maybe the houses is wired to handle 15kw at most, so that's just 5 miners.
Anything about that will need factory-grade electricity, that will require some paperwork or otherwise good connections with some corrupt officials in the power grid, and then quite honestly, when planning to deploy say 100 gear or above, you will get to the point where you need to install a transformer of some kind, mostly 11kv to 400v, for this to happen you are going to need a few people in the power grid to install it, this widens the circle of people's mouths you need to keep shut.
And then, once you start drawing constant power 24/7 unlike all other businesses, anyone who has access to the substation monitoring screens will know that you are mining, which will bring more people into the circle, those people will either stop you from doing so or they will blackmail you into paying them enough.
So it's almost impossible to stay under the radar, people will know that you are mining, and in order to be safe from all that, you need to be/know/pay someone who has enough power (not electric power tho
), so if the operation isn't a few MW worth of power, it will not generate enough profit to keep you away from the Russian authorities.
