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Indeed, and that’s an important consideration. Russia doesn’t show on the map, but if you watch Welcome to Chechnya you’d have to wonder why not. I don’t know much about it, but I’m sure the Orthodox Church was critical of Francis prior stance on homosexuality.
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Yeah, I didn't dive deep into Russia when I was looking it up, but like China it comes down to regionalism as well. In China while they said they decriminalized it, there are still courts that have upheld the ruling that homosexuality is at very least a serious mental illness. Cuba should still be on the map as there is still a lot of persecution and bigotry towards it.
China probably has laws against it because of reproductive issues. Russia because it has a streak of orthodoxy that rose again after the fall of Communism. North Korea because its North Korea. Its interesting that quite a few of the more first world Christian centric countries don't have a criminal stance, yet the vatican seems to still have it.
Its a sad state of affairs.