Tread lightly here. We have FRussians who think Zaldostanov is sexy. They happen to be male as well.
Anybody that falls for Putin’s supposed cultural defense are making a very foolish mistake- Putin is utterly void of philosophy -other than obtaining wealth, power, ego, and historic significance- and would use any platform he thinks would fool people into helping him obtain what he wants, he’d truly tell you anything you want to hear.
Western conservatives that make excuses for the Kremlin because they think he’s defending any real ‘values’ are being made fools of, to the detriment of the entire West... wake up, the Gipper’s spinning in his grave at 10,000 rpm!!!
Anyone who falls for Putin’s “defense of Christian values” is as gullible as the 1930’s American Communists who left the US for the USSR, only to find out too late that the Soviets were a bunch of murderous thugs.