state aiming to overthrow its democratically elected government, namely of Montenegro in 2016, Ukraine in 2021 and Moldova in 2023, not to mention the earlier successful ones such as the brutal 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état a full-scale invasion of the neighbouring sovereign Ukraine, launched in order to demonstrate disregard for international community in the middle of an ongoing session of UN Security Council sitting under its own chairmanship and summoned to deal with the crisis, as well as attempting to annex initially the entire country or later its large parts only, with the ensuing war crimes. In contrast to countries such as postwar Germany where thorough denazification made the society acknowledge its collective guilt, none of the abovelisted events and activities have been subjected to any serious public debate attempts in Russia, while historiography taught in Russian schools continues either to omit these events entirely or to tell them in a version entirely invented during the Soviet era. Moreover, due to persistent school indoctrination and overwhelming media propaganda, these actions continue to enjoy genuine widespread public support in Russia, shocking Western opinion who does not believe in the "decent nation ruled by a villain" narrative any more but starts to extend the negative attitude towards the Russian state and authorities also to the entire Russian population, resulting in sanctions and boycotts introduced in areas previously traditionally unaffected, such as traveling, culture or sports, the latter used in Russia routinely for propaganda purposes. In addition, many members of Russian cultural and business elites provide their support to the government while drawing enormous benefits and other privileges from this relationship in exchange, allowing them to live their lives in luxury. Therefore, although negative attitude towards contemporary Russian state, its supremacist and expansionist ideology and its aggressive actions is currently widespread in Western liberal democracies, it may not be considered Russophobic, as it is neither irrational nor driven by ethnicity, but is motivated rather by the moral disengagement among the Russian troops and decisionmakers, the widespread bystander effect among ordinary members of Russian population in the form of their unashamed easy and total absolution of themselves from any responsibility for the actions undertaken by the state apparatus that they actively or tacitly support, their susceptibility to the primitive propaganda served them, lack of criticism, as well as absence of will and determination to verify facts in reliable sources. Thus, the fear and distrust