Yes. I remember a Russian who a few years back when the Scots had their referendum about independence and people expressed relief that they chose to stay within the UK (Brexit wasn't even considered a possibility among the people discussing this) said that yeah, fine, but he had been told by the Westerners now angsting about the UK to happily accept the Soviet Union breaking apart and everyone going independent, instead of feeling devastated, which he was; that growing up he never ever considered as much as the possibility, and that it still feels like he lost the country he identified with for good. But then of course he was Russian, not from one of the states that went independent.

I'm trying to think whether any of the Russian (well, Soviet) characters on the show ever mentioned being in fact Georgian, or Ukrainian, or from Belarus etc., but can't think of an example, and I doubt they'll introduce one this late in the game.