Russians have saying "там хорошо, где нас нет", which is synonym for "the grass is always greener on the other side", but literal translation is "it’s good where we aren’t" and I would agree it's mostly better where Russians aren't. Have Russian friends who when plan holidays, look for the places that aren't popular destinations for Russian tourists.

Russia's naive useful idiots on the continent have only caused massive poverty, wars, dictatures etc. The real tragedy is that they are regarded as heroes and semi gods by the majority of Africans. To name a few: Sankara, Nkrumah, Mandela, Mugabe etc. 😔