Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nichost.ru. NS
Answer
nichost.ru. 5 NS ns3.nic.ru.
nichost.ru. 5 NS ns8.nic.ru.
nichost.ru. 5 NS ns4.nic.ru.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0