They are better not only in Russia. Many Google services feel outdated, sloppy and overcomplicated after using Yandex for a while.

It is not hard being better at translation than google at this point. Probably the best option right now is deepl.

I like that I can just drag & drop or paste any image into Yandex Translate website and it translates anything, also it has a better language detection than google translate, so you don't have to waste time to look the language you want to translate from. So far I haven't found any alternative, other than Bing translate desktop app...

Google Lens translates images too.