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To like or dislike is too hefty, instead I would say that I have an interest in almost every country, they all have something unique about them. Any current disaffection with some countries is more related to political and\or cultural aspects. Do I feel compelled by the Islamic era of Egypt? Not really but Egypt has a very interesting history prior to that nonetheless. Same with Russia, China or Iran, all interesting countries but with leaderships that make me have some negative bias, but well, I try to my best to disassociate people from politicians.
You Westerners are very naive about Russia. We are pleased with this, but we have a lot of internal problems. That's why our desperate people support America. Your desperate people support Russia. We have a lot of ethnic murders. Russians in our country are not protected and are weak internally. I can't let my daughter go for a walk. Because there are a lot of rapes of little girls by Central Asians. They're everywhere. And it's scary for any father.