This chapter analyzes the frames, narratives, and actions aiming to discredit the Russian state as “imperialist,” “totalitarian,” and “fascist.” The invasion of Ukraine presented Western critics of Russia with an opportunity to argue that Russia’s “aggressive” foreign policy was the inevitable result of the country’s “colonial” and “non-democratic” culture and political system. This narrative, long established in Western discursive space, was now actively exploited with the specific goal of stigmatizing Russians as a people and dismembering the Russian state as incapable of being a part of the civilized world. The devastating war launched by Putin led many in the West to assert Russia’s imperialism concerning Ukraine. They proposed to dismantle Russia’s “imperial” political system by internally “decolonizing” through granting greater autonomy to the country’s regions and even partitioning Russia for “moral and strategic” reasons. This narrative highlighted only one side of Russia’s domestic and foreign relations—coercion, ignoring other historically significant bonds: common past, similar cultural and religious values, perception of outside threats, and others.