Yeh — they are all horrified and frightened that the West will find out that Russia has not changed and never will.
Twenty-three years since the fall of the USSR and the birth of more-or-less independent access to news sources, and the Russians still believe everything happens due to conspiracies. And America is still `glavnii vrag’ (the main enemy).
In high school we were taught that Russian culture missed out on the Renaissance & the Enlightenment & there is still something medieval about it.
Russians may be Caucasians, but they’re not Europeans.