My experience with Russians was they're a bit like Sicilians. If they like you they love you. If they don't like you you're dead meat walking. And there's always a game going on that you're not privy to. But overall I quite liked many of the ones I knew. Very emotional and passionate, and good fun, after a few toasts of vodka. I'd much prefer partying with a group of Russians over a group of Germans and some of my ancestry is German. And it's good to recall that Stalin, their greatest villain, was a Georgian.
Russians like to dominate people. I work with many people who are Non-Russians from the Soviet bloc and there is no love there.
If you in debt to a Russian, he is unbearable. If he owes you, it sucks to be you. Everyone pretty much hates the Russians and they don’t care.
Funny story. A friend married a Russian mail order bride. She was delighted to find out how much American men would pay for sex. He couldn’t figure out how she didn’t have a job but she always had money.