Moreover, nationalism has spread from the streets into the elite. Nationalist statements that would have been confined to the extremist newspaper Den in the early 1990’s are now considered normal, “centrist,” even commonplace.
例如，民意测验显示，50%的俄罗斯人支持“俄罗斯人的俄罗斯”口号。此外，民族主义已经从平民阶层蔓延到精英阶层。在上世纪九十年代早期只有在极端主义报纸 Den 上才看得到的民族主义言论现在被认为是十分正常、“中立”、甚至是普通的言论。