The problem for Russian's is how oppressed & controlled they are. Even if Russia does embrace bitcoin I doubt the people will have much freedom, they won't be able to avoid taxes as easily as some of us can via bitcoin.
That is another reason why Russia isn't the best place to operate with bitcoin, there are way too much control on citizens.
But that made me up to a question, if police in Russia is so well-educated to know about bitcoin?
If they have over 100 million population, then it would be hard to control every unit to not use bitcoin/not use it for illegal activities.
Another thing is that we dont have internet in every place in Russia, which also makes bitcoin adoption a harder task.
Plus, how many merchants are accepting bitcoin as a payment method in Russia? I assume that not many, probably the number is really small.