I know how you feel. Sadly, it's too commonplace to shrug it onto bad upbringing. It's too bad that people get to judge a whole country based on the assholes it produces. It feels like the modern Russian culture is in its infancy yet, without anything to give but a bad attitude and blame-shifting for personal gain. I hope it matures in time, but for now, I just want to not become like those people you describe.

russia banning adoption from American couples

I didn't know that. It's outrageous. "Look, we don't like you, so we're going to not let your familial happiness thrive due to our children whom we have to feed and pay for from the government's own pocket anyway and who yearn for a family of their own from the day they were left"... My brain overheats trying to grasp just how a person can think like that. Granted, we aren't talking about a single person issuing such crappy orders, so - crowdthink? I don't know, but whatever the reason is, this is not how you repair relationships and live in peace with a superpower.

I used to watch Vremia

While you weren't in Russia, correct? If so, how were you able to do that?