I hope there will be a site soon where I can play ELK again without using VPN.
Logically, since it's the game provider (ELK) who have banned your country then I doubt you will find any casino that will let you play their games.
I wish there were some logic, but unfortunately, there isn't. I have already written about it several times, some providers are available to me in every crypto casino (BGaming, BetSoft, QuickSPin...), and some providers are available to me in some casinos and not in others (NoLimit, Hacksaw, Yggdrasil. ..), only Pragmatic was off limits for me in all casinos, until some new casinos came and now I can play Pragmatic in several places without a VPN.
I have asked several times what the trick is with those things, but I never got any "smart" answer, as it all depends on the license... So I am sure I can play ELK without VPN one day in some casino, but who knows when and where? Regarding VPN, several crypto casino reps have already written in their ANN threads that using VPN is allowed. I used it before just to play providers that were not available to me.