You can play both, it's fun. I started playing draughts when I got exhausted from playing chess. There's no point in answering your question, just play what you want, buddy.

Goddamn. Thank you for your detailed reply, I never ever got such in my life before.

There are some engines for Russian variant that do exist, mostly closed source. Is there one any could recommend me to use for analyzing games? The lidraughts doesn't have computer analysis of this…