OT: Russia Monitors Everything?

With all the news about Russia in the US political arena, I thought I would toss out this bit of off topic information. It appears that Russia monitors just about everything on the internet including this blog at times. 

I have noticed that for some reason I get a large number of "page views" coming from Russia here on this blog at times. It seems to happen whenever I mention certain key words like Bank for International Settlements (BIS) or IMF, etc. Below I pasted in my blog page views by country for the recent past few days so you can see what I mean.

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                                                                    page views

Russia	2213
United States	2163
Poland	204
United Kingdom	196
Ukraine	174
Canada	161
Netherlands	103
Germany	77
Hong Kong	60
Australia	58

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Not sure why they would care about this blog, but I suspect they simply have programs that constantly automatically monitor the internet for certain key phrases etc. I can go for weeks with no page views from Russia and then suddenly they show up in mass for whatever reason (sometimes several hundred in just a few seconds). I am certain these are not individual people reading this blog as the volume of sudden page views is too large too fast for that to make sense.