This. I always thought there was something off from when I first became aware of Russia's nationalist scene and how Russian nationalists hated the Putinist regime for, among other things, facilitating Central Asian immigration en masse. These Russian nationalists absolutely despised the Trumpians and other types who hold a (by Western standards) positive opinion towards Putin. The Putin regime is nasty in many ways—one example I remember is how they turned a blind eye to the assassination of Russian officers all across the country by Chechens after the war was over. The Kadyrov faction in Chechnya effectively allied itself to the Russian government against the other Chechen factions. Putin's lot then let them kill whoever they wanted to 'take revenge' on across Russia. To make matters worse, to keep Kadyrov loyal or attempt preventing another Chechen uprising that might lead to instability or increased American presence in the region, Russia puts disproportionately huge amounts of wealth into Chechnya. Such that Chechnya is very well developed and has been compared to Dubai. And about Asian immigration—it has been said that Moscow will be majority Muslim/Asian in a few decades and that the far-east is rapidly becoming majority Chinese.

There is also the problem of the oligarchs who held immense power during the 1990s in particular. Putin put himself above these people and got rid of some of them, but most of them are still there. Very few of them are ethnic Russians.

I think it has only been in the last few years that the true nature of Putin's regime has become known on the Dissident Right. It used to be that Putin held immense popularity. Especially around 2016 when I was most active on forums—I don't think anyone ever mentioned these truths about Putin's regime. They were things I only learned from Russians online, not Westerners. I think it is generally agreed upon that he is a civic nationalist who believes in a culturally Russian and not ethnically Russian Russia. This was first pointed out to me by someone who noted that there were two terms for what we have a single-term (Russian) for. One term is for Russians as an ethnic group. The other is for Russians as a cultural group (which is a label that is inclusive of Dagestanis, etc.). The Putin regime is simply 'nationalist' in the sense of the second group, not the first.