As much as I would like Empress to be a true and honest woman, I think she is not. Tranny sounds plausible, but I am inclined to think that there's a group of autistic men hiding behind that anime avatar. Her whole texts just scream sone typical 4chan/ 2ch dweller to me.
For Russian part - if anyone with such skills is STILL in Russia (good IT fled from it after the war), they is no way they aren't related to FSB. It's gonna be extreme case of omegalul if it is actually "a tovarisch mayor" hiding behind aneme avatar. A FSB gayops against twatter troons, what a time to live.