It means as much as your own beliefs, otherwise you shouldn’t complain when someone would push you around solving matters regarding your interests without your participation in the future.
You were listing things that are not true while remaining technically correct saying these untrue things are what Russians believe. Of course Russians believe a lot of untrue things due to state monopoly on propaganda.
Are you now saying Russians must be appeased because they believe this bullshit? Some sort of thing similar to Muslim outreach program that recognizes and sympathizes with their desire for restoration of the lost caliphate and destruction of the Western civilization?