Wait, is the problem here that you don't believe minorities should be an accepted culture? Or that you believe any accepted culture is no longer a minority?
That ethnic Russians are a minority in Ukraine is a simple fact by the definition most English speakers use for minority. It is not an insult in any way, shape or form, any more than it would be to say that Tartars and ethnic Ukranians were a minority in Crimea.
The problem here is that some Russians want Russians in Ukraine to be given special treatment over other ethnic groups (i.e. things like the right to never learn or use Ukrainian because it's such a peasant language) because of wooly historical/nationalist reasons, despite the fact that just 100 years ago the regions that are trying to declare ethnic-Russian autonomy right now were pretty solidly Ukrainian.
Look at the Russian Civil War and the makeup of the armed groups back then; the Black Army were pretty much all from East Ukraine and were very, very much Ukrainian. The Holodomor probably had a part to play in that though, I hear.
Obama is totally an assclown on a whole host of issues, where does someone get the idea that politicians being called on their natural state is somehow an insult agains the electorate? Comrade P, is this some sort of ... general Russian thing, or just a gogis thing? Any idea?
Due to the nature of the Russian states over the last millenium, the leader of Russia
was Russia, whether they were a Tsar or the General Secretary of the Communist Party. When you attack their government, you attack them. When you attack their head of state, you attack all Russians. It's just the manner of thinking in collectives.
Conversely, if you are a Russian and have bad experiences with an ethnic minority group, it is likely that you will make a judgement on all members of that ethnic group. This happens in the West all the time but in Russia it usually goes unchallenged.