For the most part the West begins where the funky onion dome churches end.
There are onion dome churches all over southern Germany. It’s not just a Russian thing.
But Russian church bells? Like no other sound on Earth, either love it or hate it. But it does have an eerie Eastern ring to it.
What makes Russians non-Western is their willingness to submit to a strongman’s leadership as long as he reassures them that things will be all right under his benevolent rule. First the Tsars, then Stalin, then Khrushchev & his successors, and now Putin. Same historical pattern.