I'm not sure why you went on this massively pedantic rant, or why you chose Russia as the hill to die on. Russia is actually a fairly good example of a Nation

I'm not sure why you went on this massively pedantic rant, or why you chose Russia as the hill to die on. Russia is actually a fairly good example of a Nation State. It has a largely homogeneous population of Russian speaking Rus people, and the minorities mostly live in autonomous regions that were created to be run by the various ethnic minorities in Russia. There's even a Jewish autonomous region in Russia. Russia is pretty solidly in the Nation State category.