Russian Orthodox have a long history of reacting with hostility to missionaries of other denominations.
>Alaska evangelical missionaries who have entered villages here that have an blue onion domed church (Russian Orthodox) presiding over the village, know a thing or two about the hostility of which you speak! The Russian Orthodox priest stirs up the village against you, stopping just short of killing you.
We here are thus not surprised at what Putin is doing. Russian Orthodoxy, similar to the RCC in the middle ages, is very tyrannical.
Completely untrue, and I am going to guess you have never even set foot in a RO church, much less been to Russia. But you feel qualified to make these kinds of statements?
State churches tend to become so.