About the recent influx of russian give-aways, Should something be done?

In those cases of:
A) Must be banhammered
B) Not all of Russian retail keys have restrictions. Some of them can be activated in other countries (for example, Russian retail keys of Napoleon: Total War). Just read descriptions carefully.

A) Ban
B) Russian cd keys redeemable in other regions (Region Free. Except Germany possibly):
FEAR 3, Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War 2 - Retribution, Witcher 2, IL2 Shturmovik - Battle of Britain, Homefront, Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War 2 - Retribution DLC Pack, Football Manager 2011, Darksiders, R.U.S.E., Lead and Gold,Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War 2 - Chaos Rising, Napoleon: Total War, Killing Floor, Aliens vs Predator, Football Manager 2010, Unreal Tournament 3.

Also Some part of Empire: Total War cd keys, Some part of Modern Warfare 2 cd keys, Some part of Black Ops cd keys, Some part of Metro 2033 cd keys (but Russian language only). Also some part of Mafia II Greaser and Vegas DLC cd-keys

Check any Russian internet store for proofs

Steam version of Dead Island for $30 is ROW (Rest of the World). Proof from my account - http://clip2net.com/s/1711C

in Soviet Russia code redeems You!

ban lol

Russia invades SteamGifts. Anyways I saw alot of FAKEZ., need to do something immediately. Maybe set ban wave.

If u would see how they spread invite codes... u would cry ^^

Ok, let's get this straight. I am from Belarus (many people still refer to it as "Russia" as it had been a part of ussr) now we're CIS and I believe I can speak freely on behalf of the real "Russia". First of all: I think the're is no need to negotiate anything with fakers whether they are from Russia or anywhere else in the world - they should be BANNED. Only That or else we're gradually gonna destroy the community, and make everyone really paranoid - fakes will seem to be everywhere.
Second point: Only retail Russian versions of some games have these regional restrictions you were speaking about above. There are very few titles which are sold in Russia with steam keys (e.g. MW2 (Region Locked), New Vegas (Region Locked), Team Fortress 2 (Supports any region), Mafia 2 (Not Sure) and a few more I couldn't recall. But the trick is - the majority of ppl in Russia get their games (and consequently the gifts) from the Steam Store directly - that way it doesn't matter where you've bought them from, these versions are NOT region locked (Even Russian version of New Vegas, whose Russian retail IS locked).
I hope my post had cleared some misunderstanding between our community.

Stop being xenophobic

A) fakes have been around before the "Russian influx"

B) what about Australian and German gamers? their versions of games can be radically different too

nobody forces you to enter a "Russian" game entry, there is no requirement too... if you don't like it don't enter it

I don't like the way people on this website have started to blame Russians on everything. Sales of registrations went on long before the "influx", fakes were made long before the "influx" etc etc

I see your account is set to Australia... how pissed do you think people would be you submitted a game but the winner found out it was censored? hmm would they be right in calling for you to be banned for not stating the fact? ALSO LOOOOOOL you are hardly the model gamer with bans on record.

About Russian giveaways that can't be redeemed elsewhere, Australia giveaways that are censored or whatever..

Easy. Make another drop-down menu where you chose which Steam store (which region) you bought the game from. That way we'd know if the game is in Russian or censored from Australia or whatever.

This won't solve fakes of course, but it solves one annoying problem.