“More generally, Russian influence operations are Russian-affiliated activities targeting public opinion and influencing decision-making in directions favourable to the Kremlin. Standard methods use social media to promote rumours, insinuations, altered facts, and lies.”
This is not what the article is about.
But to reply to your statement; russian people have come up with many good things. Litterature, poetry, music, science… The list goes on. Russia is not excluded from inventing och being creative. Russian things and people are not exclusively bad because they’re russian.