GFY was down so I found out about ruskie more...

Not sure that article was supposed to be negative as you assumed

i find this funny

i want a russian friend now

(but not one of those that always keeps posting Nazi pictures)

Some of these sounds familiar.

I have done this (not with any Russians involved).

"A normal friend parties indoors during the wintertime.
A Russian friend takes you to drink vodka shots on a snow-covered park bench in -10 F weather."

I haven't done this literally, not least as I haven't never been in Russia, but I have been in bunkers (with friend) those have been used to shoot Russians. That counts, right?

"A normal friend will take you to museums and monuments to teach you about their town’s local history.
A Russian friend will escort you to structurally unsound WWII bunkers and abandoned Soviet hospitals — remnants of the country’s tumultuous past."