Isn’t this sort of a state religion, while the Russians persecute other Christians?
Quite right, Christian missionaries not of the Russian Orthodox Church are harassed & even deported. At least they don’t get sent to the Gulag.
The Russian Church has been referred to as “Christianity’s dark side”. You would think that with their growing Muslim problem they would need all the allies they could find.
Even Moscow, which once again dubs itself the Third Rome, is under Muslim encroachment complete with demands that churches be “temporarily” used as mosques.