Hate to break it to you, but if you live in Russia and can be useful to the government, they will make you useful. Unless you don’t mind you, or your family suffering and dieing, there is no stopping that.

Russia has no law to protect its citizens, only to scare and oppress their citizens. If Russia wants you to do something, such as working in a backdoor in software, you have no choice. So it is a good choice to not leave that door wide open in my opinion.