As a Ukrainian, i absolutely agree with the first statement. The second one tho? Depends on the definition. Russian culture is pretty rich (which is no wonder, considering the amount of nations that people usually put under the umbrella term). Russia is very similar to the US in a sense that it's a melting pot for a whole bunch of nations. The Russian nation deserves as much rights to exist as the Ukrainian, or matter of fact, any other one. I'm not a fan of nations in general tho, and think that they should die on the conceptual level.