I have been running own mail server for over 10 years already, if you follow the standards (proper SPF/DKIM/DMARC records) - it rarely becomes a problem, rarely corp domains hosted on gmail push emails to spam, but overall 99.9% of emails are delivered correctly.
Payments to and from Russia are sanctioned, some banking/government services apps removed from the stores, but everything else works as before. And since Android allows 3rd party app stores, Russia has now its own app store where you can get everything what was banned due to sanctions.
Also as a software company you anyway don't want people massively using old versions of your product with publicly known security flaws.
"New large YourProduct botnet noticed by security researchers" is never a good publicity in media even if botnet consists of sanctioned users' devices.
Try any and keep blogging. Once you progress in making your content, you will better understand your needs, which will assist in a better decision: either keep current platform or pick a better one for your blogging needs.