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Does anyone know which religious bodies (besides the ROC) hare recognized by Russia? I know how it's done many European countries. Here's an except from a US State Dept. briefing about Slovakia, by way of example:

Registration of religious groups is not required, but under existing law, only registered religious groups have the explicit right to conduct public worship services and other activities, although no specific religions or practices are banned or discouraged by the authorities in practice. Those that register receive government benefits, including subsidies for clergymen, office expenses, the right to visit and proselytize in prisons and hospitals, and access to public television broadcasting. Government funding also is provided to religious schools and to teachers who lecture on religion in state schools. The Government occasionally subsidizes one-time projects and significant religious activities, and registered religious groups are partly exempt from paying taxes and import custom fees. A religion may elect not to accept the subsidies....Nonregistered religious groups may not build public places of worship or conduct legally valid religious ceremonies such as weddings....
-- from a U.S. Dept of State briefing on religious freedom in the Slovak Republic

Thus, I would have concerns that the Russian govt will only prosecute religious persecution against religious bodies that it officially recognizes.

Putin was part of a faction within the KGB which believed that pushing atheism on the populace rather than Russian Orthodoxy was a mistake.

No idea if he actually believes anything (other than more power for himself) but that is likely the direction enforcement will go.

Their focus is on the Russian Orthodox. Putin has a genocidal “mentor,” Alexandr Dugin if memory serves, who says stuff similar to that Norwegian shooter in regards to creating a culture dedicated to the rituals and traditions of the ROC. He also advocates wars of civilization against the West, renaming France to Gaul, things like that.

This isn’t a victory for Christianity. It’s a victory for a corrupt state religion which historically has been populated by KGB-Priests and KGB-Patriarchs.