I would NEVER fly on a Rusian plane.
I did a few times in Iraq. Iraqi Airways used old Russian planes with Russian pilots and crew for charters.
We were occasionally put on charters to get from Baghdad to Dubai and back for R&R. Weirdest crap I’ve ever been on aviation-wise and I’ve flown on a lot of stuff. Big tires in the front seats sometimes, bald tires with cords showing on the planes, and they felt and sounded like buckets of bolts when airborne.
The Russky pilots knew how to do the corkscrew landing required at Baghdad and it was much scarier than the ones experienced on C-130s.
But hey, we always got there and back in one piece (heaving huge sighs of relief.)