Hm.
It seems to me people are completely ignorant about anything going outside of US...
I AM RUSSIAN. I live here for my whole life, and I can say there are two good presidents in our history - the second is Putin.
About chechens - how will you act if one of native US indian tribes starts the war against the US claiming their independence and killing thousands of innocent people?
About Ucraine - how will you act if one of US states (california for example) will claim its independence from US? What will your president do? As for ours - he gave them independence, but we all know what happened to that orphaned contry later ...
Ucraine was the part of Russia for about 300 years ... United States was not even in a project when this union was settled .
But it's all about politics we can discuss if you want in other forum or topic.
Speaking about piracy in Russia ...
As for me I hate them because of making bad translation, bad packaging, source software corruption and I prefer to buy licensed soft if it is possible. But such companies as lucasarts do not sell their products in Russia so we have no choice ...
KOTOR II is my first licensed game from Lucas arts. I spent about $70 for it, even I knew it was overpriced.
So, please, do not blame Russians any more without the proper reason.