I used to buy a lot from the Russians and didn't have many problems.
It's not the shipping, nor the quality of the items. Being half Armenian, I would never intentionally buy anything from Turkey. (When your ancestors commit genocide over 100 years ago, but you still to this day publicly pretend it never happened; hell no I'm not buying from you.)
Being half Ukrainian, I wouldn't mind buying as many surplus AKs as I could from a private Russian seller.... Then promptly smuggling them over for my Ukrainian Brothers & Sisters to use for the war effort. But no luck finding such a seller. Ah, the definition of irony!