Some examples of stupid rules:

1. Give characters South Slavic names (Serbian, Bulgarian etc.) instead of Russian ones. Whether it's Iron Man 2's Ivan Vanko or Rocky 4's Ivan Drago, neither name is Russian.

2. Give characters names by taking them from Russian writers. Dostoevsky, Chekhov (Star Trek) and Gogol (recurring James Bond KGB chief) and similar names are REALLY uncommon. It would be like Russians having all Americans in their movies named after famous Indian chiefs or something like that.

3. Give characters names that are otherwise historically important: Lenin, Romanov, Gorbachev. No one's named Lenin (it was a pseudonym) and the other two, while technically correct, are cheesy and overused.

4. Cast actors who don't even look remotely Russian (pretty much every major star in every movie).

5. Men must be evil, strong brutes bent on destroying America. Young women are hot KGB spies and old women are fat and stocky.

6. Incorrect accents are used (one of the worst - Pavel Chekhov from Star Trek).

7. They try to have the actors speak a few lines of Russian, which they usually botch so hideously Russian speakers have problems identifying what they were trying to say without reading the subtitles.

8. Russia itself rarely looks accurate (the older movies are worse in this respect, but several modern ones are pretty bad, too).

9. They don't even try in Cyrillic. In the Bourne movies at one point they show a passport where they just typed English but switched the keyboard to Cyrillic. The result is equivalent to someone typing "qwyozxc lzxcvugglnxv" for a Latin alphabet passport.