If Russia merge with CN region

And that's my original thought about Fourth region, due to Riot's abandonment of CIS after Russo-Ukraine War. That could do well for competive scene for both region, as CN is the only region that secondary teams could use two imports with top league team could only use one. Imports of CN Ascensions had been called “mercenary” on Chinese forum, as if one team has promoted to league, they had to make one import leave, which had made the tregady of JDG (although they were not promoted but being bought out from RA)

mercenaries is crazy.

Also I think riot wants to do nothing with Russia until way after the war ends.

why would the chinese talent want to play with a bunch of CIS bums tho, would be a waste of a region

Doesnt make sense to merge all of Russia with CN
The majority of people living in russia dont have a playable ping to the CN servers.

I talked about it before but I do think the only realistic (yet very messy) solution would be to split Russia into regions (if you dont give them their own t2 league back).
Yes it'd probably get abused but the country is just too large to be slapped onto existing regions (ping wise).