The Russian full-fledged invasion of Ukraine intensified the discussion in the academia about the urgent need to decolonize Russian, Slavic, and Eurasian studies and finally to remove the Russo-centric bias, which has structured the field for decades. This essay contributes to this discussion by elaborating on the concept of Occidentalism, as it has been developed within the Latin American tradition of decolonial thought and turning it into solid ground for epistemological and historical critique of the Russo-centrism beyond façade-style decolonization.