Blocking certain countries from accessing your site?

[Staralfur]

How would I go about manually blocking bots/people from say Russia, China and Ukraine from accessing my forum? Perhaps there's some type of .htaccess code specifically for this.

I want to buy the forum renewal w/anti spam service but I can't afford it anymore, so I'm forced to look for external solutions. Thanks.

[Randy Calvert]

Use a cloud firewall like Cloudflare if you don’t want to deal with figuring out what IP addresses are associated with a country and maintaining that list. 

[beats23]

This solution using cloud flare worked for me.