What??? The best landings I have made have been smooth and NEVER approached stall speed. I have been in numerous landing situations, from carrier traps to text-book landings, even a Class C recovery. Not once did we ever come close to stall.
A “stalled” plane is a landed plane... and a plane well above stall is a bouncing plane. YMMV, but I find landing slow - a few knots above stall, often with stall horn, gets me down with no bounce. My home field is a relatively short runway too.
Caveat: Will add a few knots or subtract a flap notch for gusts.
As to this Aeroflot pilot 1400 hours and never made a manual landing. Even if that's true I can't imagine he didn't know the correct airspeed and rate of decent to touch down. The article says the plane is built for a 3.6G landing but this was 5.5G or even more. Someone help me out here 3.6G is probably a maximum and that sounds pretty uncomfortable. So to say this guy came in hot is an understatement.
Then you must have never landed a taildragger. The normal landing in a Taildragger is a Full Stall or Three Point landing. These terms are nearly interchangeable and are descriptive of the attitude of the airplane as it touches the runway.
The flight control operators (they certainly weren't pilots) flew the approach way too fast...resulting in a touchdown that's way too fast. They apparently pulled back on the yoke, trying to aerobrake. When the airplane got airborne, they pushed the yoke too far forward, porpoising the aircraft.