So it should be a good Russian name, like Sergei Eisenstein or Lev Bronstein?

It is the largest country in the world, covering seven time zones. I would imagine that just about anyone who isn't black could pass for some kind of "Russian." Though in the Dresden Files, the Russian character IS black. And he's part Kurdish, too. How does that Russian chick from the last Bond movie who plays hookers in Max Payne & Hitman "look" Russian? Or, you know, there are case like James Caan playing an Italian born to immigrants, Robert DeNiro playing Jewish & Irish gangsters, or Marlon Brando, whose three most famous roles were Terry Malloy, Stanley Kowalski & Vito Corleone. A celt, a slav & and a latin. I'm pretty sure he's also played a Mexican and possibly an Oriental. I recall some of my Hispanic classmates being pissed that a contemporary movie cast a bunch of Italians as Cubans. British people are routinely cast as Germans. It goes on and on, and considering that overall, Russia & its people have fared far better as the subject of movies than the USA,even during the Cold War, with most Cold War movies that I can recall going out of their way to make the Russians good guys or villains balanced by good guys, and much more reasonable or competant compared to the American "cowboy" types, this post strikes me as more of an attempt to show off your knowledge of Russia.

Considering most of the characters you reference date from when Russia was the primary enemy of the US, what would you expect? Compared to how they handle Muslims, this is picayune bull. And grossly inaccurate. As I noted above, even during the Cold War, Russians in general were well-treated as characters in movies and the USSR was portrayed in the best possible light for a totalitarian dictatorship, and unlike, say, Nazi Germany, good-guy Russian characters were not required to make a token denunciation of their nation's ideology before being allowed to be heroic. There were many good and believing communists and socialists who might decry their country's militarism or excesses, but rarely if ever, the inhuman, enslaving and materialistic ideology. And during the later years of the Cold War, I seem to recall most Russians being played by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Hardly a brute.

Considering that we are talking about a movie that probably made soldiers and physicists vomit, once again, picayune crap, that seems primarily posted to announce "Hey everyone, I speak Russian!" Indiana Jones aimed a weapon at the Ark of the Covenant that the Germans would not have for another five or six years. The tanks used in Patton had not been invented until ten years after the events in the movie.

Been through a lot of secret criminal Russian labs and shady alleys where illicit passport deals are brokered, have you?