It is also historic because Russia has always maintained a sense of superiority toward Asian peoples and despised the notion of Tatar Yoke which it used to orchestrate genocide and repressions of indigenous people's in Siberia. Losing its sovereignty not to European supremacists like Germany in the past but to an Asian power that it deemed inferior to itself is historical irony.
i am sure you have read about South Korean president spending 4 days in UAE. . once things in UAE clears up than Saudi moves. and the airline traffic between Russia and Africa. do you think they are digging gold there?
Rustom Muradov is transforming current force structure of Eastern Military district by using them in Ukraine and recruit new force with different demographics. i am not saying this intention but this whole thing is more ideologically aligned to Southern military district.