Are they?

Yes.

You cherry-pick parts of historical record to promote a narrative that is absolutely not true by suggesting what did happen is somehow a mirage.

And next time your Russian boss tells you to promote their agenda, be a bit more subtle and don’t give yourself away by decrying “descrimination against Russian language”.

красный интернет-шпион.

<tosses drink on the ground>

“You heard me.”

Your arguments in this thread are in bad faith.

For example treating the term “federalize” as if it’s just a switch one can throw. If you actually know what federalization is, you would understand that the process takes massive legal effort, likely years, of alignment of legal processes.