Russia has existed in a very harsh geo-political environment since its inception and has survived many more centuries than our country, experiencing a much higher level of death, destruction, and suffering. It is a common fallacy to judge the rest of the world by our American experiment. Despite all the Orthodox, Fundamentalists, and Evangelicals, the population and culture of the United States, not to mention Western Europe, is hurtling toward Sodom and Gomorah. Abortion/Infanticide and sexual deviancy is celebrated in our country, albeit opposed by a strong minority, and the leadership of the SBC is offended by the Russian criticism ... well, is it misplaced ?
You will just have to watch things unfold for yourself, it won’t be pretty, and Russia will never advance much beyond what they have always been, as far as freedom goes.