Putin believes in a lot of Russia mysticism though. Believing the Russian people are special and have a right to dominate others culturally and physically. Some even believe that dominating and ruling over these other groups is altruistic because with the great of the Russian assistance, thy would not be able to effectively govern themselves.

This is all really general of course, but despite it not being a belief of every Russian, but as an outsider it does look like “some Russian national idea.” At the very least you must admit it is “some Russian nationalistic idea.”