This has me thinking about trying to find a map of belt and road participants, and a map of BRICS nations. Then overlaying all maps as a master map of anti western imperialism.
How can you think Russia is a 'feel good' place in any way? It's a genocidal dictatorship with basically no regard for the lives of it's own citizens that is actively murdering a countries worth of people for oil. I get being anti capitalist, but I definitely would not call Russia anti capitalist. Maybe at one point they claimed to be communist, but I certainly don't see any of those ideals in their current government.