Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nic.ru. NS
Answer
nic.ru. 2 NS ns5.nic.ru.
nic.ru. 2 NS ns9.nic.ru.
nic.ru. 2 NS ns6.nic.ru.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns5.nic.ru. 2 A 31.177.67.100
ns6.nic.ru. 2 A 31.177.74.100
ns9.nic.ru. 2 A 31.177.85.186
ns5.nic.ru. 2 AAAA 2a02:2090:e800:9000:31:177:67:100
ns6.nic.ru. 2 AAAA 2a02:2090:ec00:9040:31:177:74:100
ns9.nic.ru. 2 AAAA 2a02:2090:e400:7000:31:177:85:186
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0