I'm an Anchorage resident (and grateful former student of Dr. Haycox) who for 4 + years now has been living and working at the large university in Siberia where this article was published.  For what it's worth, these kinds of ideas are not typical among the educated Russians that I've interacted with or observed in one way or another over that time, and they are actually less prevalent in my experience than when I first began visiting the country in 2008.  (Thank heavens, Sarah Palin jokes at the mention of Alaska are too.)  People who do occasionally voice that kind of thing are told, "Get over it! it's really theirs!"