This orthodox move, like everything else came from Hillary’s attempt to launch a Euromaidan/Color revolution movement after the 2011 Russian election.
After that NGOs of all types faced new restrictive laws. So did missionaries, so did people seeking to adopt Russian orphans.
The adoption laws were also the result of us refusing to restrict homos from adopting.
There is some stuff there that I am very glad our first amendment protects us from. But a big chunk of this was the result of Putin trying to stop a deadly cultural rot. The endemic prostitution where half the hookers in the worlds tourist areas were Russian, the orphans, the drug use rate, and the western promotion of homosexuality became a source of national humiliation and they have been moving to fix it.
I don’t agree in the “only orthodox” concept. But it’s coming from a less nefarious place than is being cast.
Its a rejection of “foreign” in a time when foreign means globalists coming to town.
Yep. Good post.