Sounds like rhetorical cover for totalitarian government. So what else is new? A strong Russia in Asia is not undesirable to keep Islamic militancy in check, but not as a pretext to another dictatorship.
Euraziistvo: Teoriia, Praktika also emphasizes Putin’s early Eurasianist leanings by including two of the president’s articles. One, entitled "Russia Has Always Visualized Itself as a Eurasian Power," was originally published in 2000, when Putin had just come to power. In it, Putin proclaims that Russian foreign policy is prepared to make "a decisive turn" toward the Asia-Pacific region.