If we go down this path, I think that the fate of a lot of the peoples of Russia, and above all, of course, the Russian people, may change dramatically, well, just dramatically. I don't even know if such a ethnos as the Russian people can be preserved as it is today. So there will be some Muscovites, Ural residents, and so on. These plans were all in the plans, they're laid out on paper," Putin said in an interview with the propaganda television channel Rossiya 1.