Great respect to a relatively small nation struggled to survive and be independent while managing to prosper along the way! I remeber my history textbook mention Russia took big chunk of Finland's territory after two winter wars... never bother return the land even after Finland paid off it's reparation.
Personally, I have Russian friends from my university and they are fine people to me. But as a nation, I think Russia should learn not to throw it's weight around it's small neighbors. Burte force would only earn contempt and hate, not respect.