but aside from the flag there's lots of Russian connections to Scotland, most of them positive. Even Russia's most celebrated poet Learmontov was from a branch of the Scottish family of Learmont who were already famed as poets. In fact their coat of arms is on a castle not far from me.
Course...every time we have an election in Scotland there's a sudden rush of "Bad Ivan is going to bomb/invade Scotland " stories in the corporate press, like this: