It is the trend for now, and for future.
Authorities will require KYC on crypto exchanges, and it will happen around the globe, sooner or later.
Regulation in Russia is not yet ready. I think it's good that no personal information is needed for verification, as such centralized exchanges have become rare.
In my opinion, KYC is not too bad way to help investors better to catch scammers if something seriously wrong with crypto exchanges.
Yeah, the fact is when scam exits occur, it is hard for police, local authorities to investigate, then catch scammers and get part of stolen money from them, and give those money back to investors. It's the fact, but KYCs might help somehow.
However, I would only trade small amounts there.The cxchange can disappear overnight and there are no opportunities to do anything in Russia - unlike, for example, in New Zealand with the Cryptopia case.
The key lesson is should not store all your money on exchanges due to risk to lose all your money from exchanges' hacks, or scam exits.
So stay careful and trade only small amounts you can lose and do not save XEM there in the longer term.