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"Many Russians displayed similar attitudes toward the two Chechen wars of the early post-Soviet era and the 2008 invasion of Georgia. More recently, the 2014 invasion of Crimea was widely cheered and remains arguably the most popular single event of Putin’s entire 23-year reign. Such thinking reflects the unapologetically imperial identity which Muscovy inherited from the Soviet and Czarist eras...."
Russia having a problem with majority support for wrong war, repeatedly, and most have supported this one, is a long way from saying there isn't one Russian who opposes it besides Kasparov. Many do. Many have gone to prison protesting, many have left the country over the war.