"My dear critics in Ukraine! If you do not see any difference between the Russian and the Muscovite ("Moskalim" in your opinion), then this is a fact of your biography.
And do not need their topical phobias and claims (quite understandable, however, and whose reasons I, for example, respect) spread to the entire Russian people and Russian history.
In Russian history there were times when Smolensk was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and not a vassal of Moscow. Well, then it was not Russian people who inhabited it, so what?.
And now millions of people all over the world speak Russian, consider it their native language, and themselves (to a large extent) - a product of Russian culture and Russian history. There are such people in the Baltics and in Belarus. In Kazakhstan and in Germany. In the USA and in Israel.
And many of them (and I dare to say that the majority) do not have any sympathy for Moscow and the regime that now rules it.
And because they are not the serfs of the Moscow khan, they do not cease to be Russian. In the part in which it is determined by language and culture, and not by blood and the shape of the skull.
There are such people in Ukraine. And there are many. And many of them with weapons in their hands defend Ukraine against despicable Moscow aggression.
I will say more: many Russians in Russia themselves do not enjoy the enthusiasm for everything that happens in it. And they are not Crimean and other admirers of the "cult of power".
Yes, among the Russians there are a lot of booby-expansionists who are confident that modern Russia has something to offer the world as an alternative to freedom and democracy.
But these people have never been the part of the Russian nation that has contributed something to the world's civilization.
And if the Russians still have a chance for a national revival, then only the part of the Russian people who does not consider the only sign of Russianness to be a non-alternative to the nation of Moscow and Moscow tyranny. And the only role of the Russian people is to serve as cannon fodder and bricks to create a "great power", - summed up Koch.