[tetromino_]

Where did you see signs of control by Russia or China? The project's github repo states that the project currently has one maintainer, and that maintainer has a very Dutch name and a .nl website.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Talking about the author of the suspicious commits. In another repo:

https://github.com/xroche/httrack/pull/210/commits/e00339643...