I think this is easy to dismiss based on the headline, but I thought it was actually an interesting presentation of thoughts and opinions on the matter that actually originate in Ukraine and other countries nearby. I think this stands in contrast to a lot of the quick, vapid reactions we saw around boycotting everything "Russian" last year as shows of bullshit solidarity. I think this actually does a decent job of at least presenting some explanation of people who do truly believe that (e.g. Ukrainians, Georgians), even if you might not find their reasoning convincing. And the author does attempt to address their own perception of those arguments in good faith, performing a literary and historical analysis of the prominence of Russian novels in our culture and with respect to what relationship if any they have to the current politics in the region.