Can you say “VPN”? Ahh! I KNEW you could!
There’s a lot of stuff that I can’t reach from Russia right now, but a VPN usually solves these problems.
As far as FS being less good than X-Plane “out of the box”, I don’t get live streaming from them either and some of the scenery around here is absolutely hilarious, but it’s recognizable. In MSFS, the scenery is from God Himself only knows where as it bears no resemblance to the real thing.
If I need a gigabit connection to get scenery that’s even remotely accurate, that’s a problem. . . .