A country and its government - or even system of government - are not the same thing. Russia has generally had appalling governments, yet it has produced great art (this is the land of Dostoyevsky, Shostakovitch, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Prokofiev, Diaghilev, Mussorgsky, Bulgakov, Tchaikovsky...) and much of the culture of day-to-day life is frankly charming (i.e. this is a society in which it is common to add jam to tea). One can express disgust at the current regime in the Kremlin and its actions abroad (and domestically!) without engaging in Russophobic chest-beating.
That's too much nuance for BRTD.
