No particular sources because that's an unpopular topic in Russia, for obvious reasons you won't see anything about that in state media and I don't trust various lib media without videos or images. My words are primarily based on rapid changes in the tone and content from major local Instagram, Telegram, etc. accounts\chats. For example, IG account "asiansofrussia" (+ TG version) who mostly used to post about culture and instances of anti-Asian racism in Russia got persecuted for his posts about disproportionate deaths of soldiers from minority regions during the start of the war, then had to leave Russia & now posts heavy anti-Russian content and it has a huge following. Many local chats started boiling after instances like this - (father of 5 got drafted despite having 0 experience) or this - (taking students from the university despite pledging not to do that like 1 day ago). Another indicator is how many activists who were before mostly talking about instances of racism now went to full secessionist mode and are gaining followers despite the fact that this topic was pretty unpopular not too long ago.Do you have any source for this? And Z guys removing their pics as well as the ethnic nationalism? Would be interested to read.
Plus e.g. Buryatia borders Mongolia and I posted links to traffic jams on that border earlier, many people are trying to flee. There wasn't as much panic during the start of the war.