Well, Putin is a hypocrite. He is blaming Latvia and Estonia for that how they treat Russian minorities and on the other side he sold his compatriots in Turkmenistan in exchange for long term contract for cheap Turkmen gas.
Given his demograhics on the home front, he'd be better served by taking the settlers back in. The beginning part of recent Mark Steyn's article (freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399019/posts) deals with this very thing.