Article 282 is to me a mere example of how Karlin's claims appear suspicious when I have no time to go through all of them. I'm claiming that all of the claims in that article are likely to be to varying degrees bunk.

Making russkiye the 'state-forming people' in the constitution, formally privileging them above rossiyane is barely an improvement over the situation as is. It would be like the United States declaring that White Americans are the 'state-forming people' while everything else remains the same. To me it simply seems performative, a bone thrown to Russian ethnonationalists, an olive branch that he's extended to them because they're the only people who are seriously going to be motivated in this current conflict, alongside Soviet-nostalgic Sovoks. Without them, he doesn't really have anyone who would willingly fight in the Ukraine. Indeed, the Russian POWs are all saying that they were told they were on a training exercise and even that Zelensky had already surrendered and that the war was already practically won. Russian ethnonationalists would be utterly foolish to hold onto that olive branch as though Putin has all of a sudden seen the light and is now 'our guy'.

Your 3-4-5 are only things that we could say he's doing since the past few days, and I wonder why it took him so long even to do #3. A few weeks ago I'd be like: 'What are you even talking about?' since only #1 and #2 seemed correct at that time, so we're talking about very recent changes here.

I don't view anything that Putin is doing in regards to ethnonationalism as sincere: it's about co-optation through making symbolic concessions. Putin must feel real dumb for persecuting nationalists in the past, because both they and their Western counterparts would gladly be cheering Putin on instead of seriously contemplating as so many on the DR are whether the Jew regime in the Ukraine might actually be a lesser of evils. Instead, he made enemies of ethnonationalists, probably even murdering some like Tesak, so now he has to use Wagner Group, Kadyrovites, Sovoks and others instead.

I think Putin's 'anti-Nazism' is utterly irrational: A bunch of Russian 'neo-Nazis' have no relation to Germany's mass slaughter of Russians. And if his problem is not historical, but that they'll kick in some Muslim's head and therefore ruin his little multiracial project, we should be reminded that these rossiyane are far more violent than ethnonationalists, and that these people are only here because the likes of Putin wanted them to be. There would be no 'racist' violence without multiracialism: no Christchurch shooting if NZ didn't trigger it by bringing in Muslims in the first place.