“If #Russia were to dissolve, Russians will disappear as an ethnic people, there will be moscovites, urals and god knows who else instead”, says #Putin.

Hm, how could that be, I wonder, is it because Russia is already comprised of ethnicities like mordva, bashkirs, kalmyks, moksha, ugors, komi, nenez, chukchi etc which you’d spent decades if not centuries trying to erase?