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[Spider Jerusalem]

1. I'm not sure "pro-Russia", or "pro-Putin" is the right term

so much as, possibly, "anti-American", or at least, "anti-American government". There's a certain sort of person on the political left who sees the US government as the source of most of the world's evil and fundamentally not trustworthy; this makes people who are opposed to what they see as the sinister machinations of the US government and the corrupt military-industrial-financial complex allies of convenience by default, in a sort of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend, or at least, not my enemy" way.

The reasons for this sort of anti-Americanism are, probably at least in part, because of perceptions of the US as being principally an imperialistic capitalist actor in international affairs; anti-imperialism, anti-militarism, and anti-capitalism are probably all important factors in shaping this worldview, to varying degrees.