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More like shut down meaningless and unprofitable teams in eastern Russia to help meaningful and unprofitable expansion in Europe.
Not gonna happened. It one thing when foreign teams have support from Russia, it doesn't make public opinion very happy, but could be tolerated for a while. And it's completely another case when such support would be in same time as shutting down Russian teams. Nobody would even think about that here.
What makes you think that teams in major cities are meaningless? That's the crux of the issue here, a team in Berlin is much more important to the league's prestige than another team in Siberia.
I don't see any connection of hypothetical team in Berlin to any team in Siberia. If Berlin would be able to support such team without Russian money, I'd be all for that. I'm sure that place in the league would be freed for them by some collapsed foreign team by that moment.