Are Russian people are reading my blog, really?

Where hits to my blog are coming from

This will be short, I am just pretty amazed today.  Blogspot, the host where I post my thoughts, has recently changed some things in the background, and I've finally taken a few minutes to look it over.  To my surprise, I get a reasonable number of hits on my post from Russia (forgive me if that is not the correct name, I mean the region known as the USSR.  Why is that?

Are they really interested or are they hackers looking for a way in.  I'd like to think it was not the latter, however, I'm thinking it is.  I wish one of them would email me or make a post just to say hello!