My experience with Eastern European nationalists (no matter what the stripe) is that they view promoting the superiority of their own national creed to be of such great importance that it abrogates lesser rules. They will therefore blithely disregard rules that stand in the way of doing so, while at the same time manipulating such rules to the detriment of their identified enemies. Every Eastern European nationalist I've encountered doing this is flatly and utterly convinced that their actions (no matter how outrageous they might seem to one not committed to their cause) are absolutely beyond reproach. Anyone who suggests otherwise is simply a shill for the opposition.
I'm reasonably convinced that's what's going on here. This is one of Wikipedia's unsolvable problems, in that solving it requires banning, quite frankly, most of Eastern Europe (and a good fraction of expats from Eastern Europe), which simply isn't going to happen.
For a good time, try reading one of the Wikipedias in one of the national languages from one of these countries. You'll get a really interesting twist on "neutral point of view", especially on the projects where admins are empowered to decide content disputes and block people who come out on the wrong side thereof.
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