So why do the russians have a million players and we dont ?.

Ectar:   The game was first released in Russia. Russia is a huge market with a massive population The game is created by a Belorussian company and was designed to appeal to that market. Russia is a "tank nation" in multiple cities and towns you can find monuments to tanks and stationary decommissioned vehicles. Players are generally more loyal to developers/companies from their own nations/regions. MMO's for example like Aion or MapleStory are huge in Asia but not so big outside that Market.  CrossFire is a huge FPS game in Korea but in EU and NA everyone still plays CoD, Battlefield and CounterStrike as their main FPS games. The free to play element draws in lots of players It was released in RU with a huge marketing campaign and continues to be promoted strongly.