You don't know what you're talking about. Not all regions of Russia have the same opportunities, not all nationalities live on the same fertile land or have the same resources.

If you just say, "Now you are free," in the first place, they will not understand what they are free from. Free from the single economic space? From education? From the food base?

And, secondly, they will start to fight with each other. And you just get an infinite number of "Ukraines". Artificial state formations under the external control of Western countries.

What are we even talking about if everything that is happening now is just the consequences of the collapse of the USSR. Azerbaijan and Armenia, Georgia and Ossetia, Transnistria and Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Russia abd Ukraine...