I’m an idiot. Make that a complete idiot.
Amazon.com do deliver to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and indeed everywhere else in Russia. I am just incapable of reading an onscreen message. One of the books I was trying to order was out of print, and hence I was ordering it second hand through a third party affiliate of Amazon. This third party don’t deliver to Russia, hence a warning flagged up beneath this particular book as well as at the top of the page. Your clueless blogger saw a long list of books with a warning at the top and bottom and assumed the entire list was unable to be shipped to Russia.
As I said: idiot. Still, at least that’s an idiot with a book supply.

Is Amazon sending things to Yuznho necessarily the same thing as the Russian postal service actually delivering them to you?
Good point George. So far, the postage to my work address has been quite good, but so far there has been nothing sent to me worth pilfering.
what’s the book in question? Perhaps one of your readers has (or can get) a copy.