I feel like once the CIS league comes back they are gonna follow the same model as the MENA league, just make an eastern and a western conference.
Also, idk if this rule applies in the whole world, but at least here in Spain what we do is, a player who has played 2 splits in the league counts as Regional, so starting next year all imports who played both splits will be considered regional (Same happens in LOL Superliga)
I don’t think allowing Russians to be completely regional on any Pacific league would be fair with that specific country. There were rumors about that in EMEA last off season, when IW wanted to make that full Russian roster to compete in Turkey, but they didn’t end up allowing it.
It’s a very complicated situation tbh