> There is no state-level propagation of ethnic hatred in Russia.
Perhaps, but there obviously is state-level propagation of hatred (that's you who added "ethnic"). It's enough to watch some recordings of top political shows on Russian state-ran channels to clearly see they express hatred (and do that on a regular basis), you don't even have to understand the words they speak.
Good for them if they don't propagate open racism, but they certainly do propagate hatred towards other countries (not necessarily ethnicities), their own citizens having different point of view, hatred towards sexual minorities (and that's not about the classic conservative stance to refuse accepting sexual minorities as a norm, that's open propagation of violent hatred).
Well, there is certainly strong disdain for some governments of the world, but not towards the people who they manage, whom are potrayed as victims.
But government is not the same as citizens and I'm quite confident that any of those speakers would agree with that (since they learned to parrot the politically correct things).
And that's exactly the picture which the developed countries have in mind when they talk about other countries, save for the details of regime preference.
that is not true. On state TV they openly incite hatred toward Ukrainians, call to destroy "Ukrainness", celebrate that school lessons will be only in Russian on the occupied territories. Basically you replace Ukrainian with Jewish and you'll get speeches well familiar from the history.
And this is a typical example of what is openly posted and expressed by the patriotic "elites" (and de-facto encouraged by the current political regime), and you don't want to hear how the same ideas sound from the mouths of the "non-elites"
"... built into the body of the culture understanding of the totality of intellectual and spiritual superiority of Russians over Ukrainians. ... [as a result of Ukrainian military victories] Ukrainians start to be perceived as a nation comparable to Russians, and that is true nightmare."
It is basically Goebbels (with Russians as the "master nation") all over the place these days in Russia.
>there is certainly strong disdain for some governments of the world, but not towards the people who they manage, whom are potrayed as victims.
That is myth that Soviet and now Russian propaganda have always wanted you to believe. For example Finnish war of 1939 was stated to be against the Finnish imperialist government oppressing Finnish people and not against Finnish people. Well nothing could be more telling than indiscriminate fire bombing of Finnish cities with cluster fire bombs. The same BS about Ukraine war supposedly being waged only against "nazist" Kiev regime and not against Ukrainian people - to the propaganda of ethnic hatred i already described above add the actual genocide and ethnic cleansing that has been going on in Ukraine in the last 7 months - and one can see what it really is.
These people hold the opinion that Ukraine has spent 30 years actively trying to destroy Russianness, so I can see how some amount of such flamboyant rhetoric may exist. But overall it's not true, Russian Federation is keeping options to study Ukrainian (and in Ukrainian) on the lands that it now holds.
I'm not sure how representative that is, and it is mostly about bad ideas ("Ukrainian state fruitlessly leaning towards the West") being replaced with good ideas ("Ukraine realizing that it has to play ball with Russia") and not about harming people by their ethnic situation.
Behind the link is some anonymous Telegram channel. I can create one, and so can you. But the idea is sound, Russians do not want their ambitions of grandeur challenged. Still it has very weak correlation with ethnic hate.
I'm not denying that propaganda creates and propagates myths because that's what it for.
Perhaps, but there obviously is state-level propagation of hatred (that's you who added "ethnic"). It's enough to watch some recordings of top political shows on Russian state-ran channels to clearly see they express hatred (and do that on a regular basis), you don't even have to understand the words they speak.
Good for them if they don't propagate open racism, but they certainly do propagate hatred towards other countries (not necessarily ethnicities), their own citizens having different point of view, hatred towards sexual minorities (and that's not about the classic conservative stance to refuse accepting sexual minorities as a norm, that's open propagation of violent hatred).