Russophilia

Russophilia is the admiration and fondness of Russia, particularly the Russian government and Russian history but sometimes also Russian culture. Russophilia is particularly wide spread in the authoritarian left, who still refuse to accept that the Soviet Union fell and hope to somehow bring it back by supporting a oligrachic  reactionary government. It's also fairly wide spread amongst, particularly the European reactionaries who see  Putin's Russia as somewhat of an ideal to strive towards. Many russophiles are also influenced by the Russian state-backed RT propaganda network. The opposite of Russophilia is Russophobia.

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 * TargetedIndividual - What if I'm a russophile in that I like Russian culture and aesthetics, but hate Putin and the current oligarchical state of it?
 * User:JonahF2014 - That's not what is understood about political Russophilia, the text section mentioning Russian culture here is adopted almost identically from Wikipedia which mentions it since the term "Russophilia" can also refer to culture, this use however is extremely rare and not relevant in a political context.