They should be, Gillette have a Platinum/Super Platinum spec, their premium option. That's why the Super Iridium/Polsilvers are often great, they are the premium blade for the Eastern Europe market. These light blue Platinums should just be different packaging so the only difference would be production years, as long as they're Russian made. My current dark blue Platinums are new, after 2017 as they're single wrapped and etched on one side. It would be interesting to trial them side by side with the light blue version. I can swap a collection of Gillette blades of for say 20 of these, if anyone wants to trade.