I have to ask why would the Russians want to ally with the second most backwards people on the planet?
My grandmother , a german, used to give her husband periodic hell and in that scolding it was punctuated with “thinking like that you sill always be a stupid Russian”.
I’m thinking, in retrospect, she knew far more than she let on!
But remember, what you and I would refer to as ‘backwardness’ is what neo-Eurasianists consider ‘traditionalism’.
Rigidly hierarchial, ruthlessly conformist, and highly patriarchal cultures; this is what neo-Eurasianists are advocating. For them, Islamic culture is the perfect partner, and what’s more, it is also anti-Western, anti-democratic and anti-liberal.
It’s like peanut butter and jelly. The neo-Eurasianist philosophy can work quite nicely with their Islamic counterparts; they’re really not all that different. In neo-Eurasianism, religion is simply a means of exercising social control over the population - nothing more.
It’s all about global geopolitical power. That is - as it’s always been - the name of the game.