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Genshin has to straddle the thin line because the game is massive in both pro-Russian (including Russia itself) and anti-Russian countries.
Like, they dropped the whole "Fatui soldiers didn't know they were invading Liyue, thought they were there to help with the Chasm and once they realised the truth, gathered up the bros who'd listen and fucked off, defying the orders from above" world quest in April 2022, exactly one patch cycle after the invasion started.
Normal Russians get to feel nice about not being portrayed as monsters, non-Russians get to see Snezhnaya/notRussia getting explicitly called out on invading other places and a reference to the confusion of the early encounters (with soldiers supposedly confused about the fact they started a war, that the locals aren't welcoming them with bread and salt, etc.).

If only they had shown the same sort of balls with Sumeru and added those mosques from the manga, it would have been kino.