The main thing I wasn't getting was--if it was a group trying to "close the airport"--why didn't anyone think it was anger over the recent censorship?

But apparently it's the result of Russain politics, or something (according to this comment).

I still think it's weird how there's all this hulabaloo in fandom and also on LJ, and some of the issues are connected and some are separate. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I do believe in coincidences. But since I didn't get what was happening anyway I thought it was awfully strange. But now it's a bit clearer--so, thanks!