Hello,
I noticed that on the new version, Russia stopped spawning on the map.
Her spawning seems to be disabled. In the place where her settlers should appear, no one appears in the year they appear.
If we start playing for Russia, then first we wait for the counter of moves until the time of the appearance of Russia, and then, after pressing the button, we immediately get a defeat.
I play mod on top of a pirated Russian version of the game with the Russian language turned on. 1.16.6 and earlier played perfectly fine